Prof Mitra has acted as the Head of the Scientific Committee on Entrepreneurship for the OECD’s (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) Centre for Entrepreneurship and the LEED (Local Economic and Employment) Programme at its Trento Centre and in Paris. He is a visiting scholar at the University of Luneburg, Germany, a Visiting Professor at University Externado de Colombia and has held similar positions at the Institute of Management Technology, India; the School of Management, Fudan University and the School of Public Policy at Jilin University, both in China; at Bologna University, Italy and EDHEC Business School, France.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK. Jay Mitra also leads the International Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF), a unique network and forum for researchers, policymakers and business practitioners working on entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development issues. Educated at Presidency College, Calcutta University, Jadavpur University, both in Kolkata, India and at the University of Stirling, UK, Professor Mitra trained in the private sector in the UK, worked as a Principal Officer for local government also in the UK, specialising in economic and business development, and taught at three other universities before joining the University of Essex