Deepak K. Datta is currently Professor and the Eunice and James L. West Chair of  Private Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Arlington. Prior to his joining UTA, Professor Datta was the Judy and William Docking Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Kansas. He obtained his  B.Tech. (Mechanical engineering) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology,  Kharagpur,  his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and his LL.B. from Calcutta University. He completed his Ph.D. (Strategic Planning and Policy) at the University of Pittsburgh.

Professor Datta has taught in the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs at KU and UTA. In addition, as visiting faculty he has taught in the NEOS International MBA Program at IIBS, Italy/Slovenia, MBA program at ESC Toulouse, at CEIBS, Shanghai, the Fulbright MBA Program at Cairo University, the Jiaotong University Executive MBA program in Qingdao, China and the L'vov Institute of Management, Ukraine. Currently he teaches in executive UTA MBA programs in Ft. Worth, Taiwan and China. Professor Datta has also taught in executive education programs at Hallmark and Sprint. He was the Director of the Center of International Business at the University of Kansas.

Professor Datta's research interests are in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, CEO selection, TMT characteristics, corporate governance, strategic decision processes, strategic human resource management, international entrepreneurship and international business strategies. His research (over 50 papers) has appeared in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Management International Review, British Journal of Management, Human Resource Management Journal and Long Range Planning. He has presented over sixty papers in conferences in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, India, Italy, U.K., Norway, Costa Rica, Spain, Singapore and the U.S.

Professor Datta has won several awards for teaching and research. These include the University of Kansas Graduate Business School Outstanding Educator Award, the CIMBA Distinguished Teaching Award, the Association of Business Doctoral Students Outstanding Mentor Awards, the UTA Distinguished Paper Award, and the University of Kansas Guy Mabry Best Paper Awards. He has served on the Research Committee of the BPS Division of the Academy of Management and is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies and the British Journal of Management.