Gautam Dutta

Gautam Dutta is Deputy Director of the Political Reform Program at the New America Foundation. In this capacity, he is an advocate for New America’s signature reform proposals, including instant runoff voting, proportional voting, and redistricting reform. A Yale and Georgetown-educated lawyer, Mr. Dutta has been Tax Counsel to California State Controller John Chiang, an enforcement attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a commercial litigator at the Los Angeles firm of Buchalter Nemer, and law clerk for a federal judge in Washington, D.C. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa appointed him to the position of commissioner on the Los Angeles Industrial Development Authority, which he served in from 2006 to 2007.

Mr. Dutta also serves on the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union-Southern California and the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California, and was previously Chair of the South Asian Bar Association Public Interest Foundation. In Washington, D.C., he was President of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund, as well as Vice Chair of the District of Columbia’s Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs. He was Editor in Chief of the Yale Political Monthly, and is fluent in Spanish, German, Hindi, and Bengali.

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