Soumya Gupta is a faculty member in the Liberal Arts Department at RIT Dubai where she teaches Economics. At present she also works as a research economist at the Tata- Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition at Cornell University, and serves as a visiting fellow at the American University of Sharjah. Her research interests lie at the intersections of food security, agriculture, and maternal and child nutrition. She has published widely in top field journals and her research has been shared at conferences in the fields of applied economics, nutrition and gender globally.