Santanu K. "Sandy" Baruah is an American politician from the state of Oregon and is the president and chief executive officer of the Detroit Regional Chamber.

Baruah led the development and implementation of the Agency's award-winning balanced scorecard.

After leaving his most recent government service in early 2009, he was a Distinguished Fellow at the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, a Washington, D.C.–based think tank composed exclusively of corporate CEOs, university presidents and labor leaders.

In 2010, Baruah was named president and chief executive officer of the Detroit Regional Chamber.

[3] In 2017, Baruah was appointed to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Detroit Branch board of directors.