Prof Roopinder Oberoi is Fellow at Institute of Eminence, Delhi School of Public Policy and Governance (DSPPG) and a Professor and HoD of the Department of Political Science, KMC, University of Delhi. She received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Delhi. In 2012, she was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship by the University Grant Commission of India.  She was awarded the UKIERI project in 2017 where she worked on the topic of Social Enterprise in HIgher Education Sector: Comparison between India and UK.  

She has authored and edited several books including Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development in Emerging Economies Lexington Publisher, USA, 2015, Globalization Reappraised: A false Oracle or a talisman? Vajpeyi, D and Oberoi, R, Lexington Books, USA, 2017, Revisiting Globalization: From Borderless to Gated Globe Springer, UK, 2018, and Social Enterprise in the Higher Education Sector, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2020, Contestations is Global Civil Society (Emerald Elgar, 2022). Disentangled vision on higher education: Preparing the generation next- Peter Lang Publishers, Bern, Switzerland (2023) Changing the paradigm of energy geopolitics: Resources and pathways in the light of global climate, Peter Lang Publishers, Bern, Switzerland (2023). 

She has published more than 45 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 26 chapters in international books.She has delivered more than 50 talks in international and national conferences. She has been an invited speaker in the UK, France, Canada , USA, Japan, Australia, Poland, Dubai, China etc.  She is the governing body member of Guru Nanak College, Chennai. She is on the editorial board of Social Responsibility Journal (UK). She completed an international project on Social Enterprise and Higher Education awarded by the UK-India Education and Research Initiative UKIERI, British Council (2017-2020). She is a visiting research fellow at the University of Huddersfield UK from 2020 onwards. She is part of RC35 International Political Science Association (IPSA).  She is the founder of the Centre of Innovation and Social Enterprise (CISE), KMC, University of Delhi, and the Young Leader Policy Discourse Forum (YLDPF). She is also a coordinator and convenor of the 180DC KMC chapter. Her areas of specialization include political science, public policy, public administration, global governance, CSR, social enterprise, and higher education.