Professor Sougata Ray

Sougata Ray is a Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship (Practice), Thomas Schmidheiny Chair Professor and Executive Director of the Thomas Schmidheiny Centre
for Family Enterprise. Earlier he served at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta for over two decades as a Professor of Strategic Management, a member of the Board of Governors and Dean. He was also a senior-level executive in Infosys Technologies Limited for two years in a strategic role as Head of innovation Lab. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, Shibpur.

Prof. Sougata is one of the most prolific and cited home-grown strategy scholars in India. He has been publishing regularly in reputed scholarly journals and presenting at leading peer-reviewed international conferences. He received over half a million dollar research grants, several prestigious research and teaching awards and many more award nominations.

Sougata Ray blends over three decades of experience in diverse roles – international quality academic, research and institution-building practice with hands on corporate managerial and governance experiences as an executive, member of the Board of Directors, and co-founder of start ups. He has been an advisor to numerous medium and large corporations, family businesses and start-ups, and a Principal Consultant to leading International Development Agencies. He currently sits on the governing and advisory boards of several listed and unlisted companies, start-ups and social enterprises. Prof. Sougata has taught in numerous Executive Education Programmes, designed and conducted many workshops exclusively for Owner-managers, Entrepreneurs and C-Level Executives of companies in India, Asia, Middle East, Nordic and Scandinavian countries.