Sumit Bhaduri (born 1948) is an Indian organometallic chemist and was a senior scientific advisor to Reliance Industries.
[1] He is known for his studies on metal-carbonyl clusters and to the polymer-supported catalysis[2] and is credited with the development of technology for the manufacture of Ziegler-Natta polypropylene catalyst which is in use with Reliance Industries.
A year later, he returned to India and started his career as a scientist at Alchemie Research Center of the Indian subsidiary of the Imperial Chemical Industries where he continued until 1995 when he resigned from the centre to join ACC Research and Consultancy Directorate.
In 1999, he joined Reliance Industries as the head of their R&D Division and resigned as the senior scientific advisor in 2010.
[8] He holds several patents for the processes he has developed[9] and one of them, on the manufacturing of Ziegler-Natta polypropylene catalyst is in use with his former employers, Reliance Industries.