Dr. Samapti Guha is working as a Professor at the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

She is a Development Economist and has done her PhD in Economics from Jadavpur University in 2004. After her PhD, she worked in Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi and Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat. In 2006, Dr. Guha got selected as Sir Ratan Tata Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK for her Post Doctoral Study.

In 2007, she has joined Tata Institute of Social Sciences and launched a new MA programme in Social Entrepreneurship and has run the Centre single handedly for three years. She along with his colleague Prof. Satyajit Majumdar set up Social Incubation Centre at the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai supported by UGC in 2011.

She has worked on several CSR projects of Indian Industries as a Researcher, Third Party Evaluator, Social Auditor etc. She was the part of the Working Committee of the biggest CSR portfolio of DBS bank of India and Singapore, “DBS-TISS Social Entrepreneurship Programme” from 2012 to 2017. She has mentored more than 50 social enterprises. Her areas of research are women entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, social entrepreneurship, Development Economics etc.

She has published articles in National, International journals and in Books. She has attended and organised several National and International Conferences.