Dr Ruma Ghosh Senior Fellow (Faculty) is a Labour Sociologist with a Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has more than two decades of experience in conducting evidence based research, preparing capacity building modules and conducting evidence based policy trainings in the area of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Child Labour, Gender Issues and Social Protection of Workers. She coordinates the Institute’s Centre ‘Social Protection Studies’ and is the Editor of the Institute’s bi-annual academic journal ‘Labour and Development’ (ISSN 0973-0419).

She is currently implementing a Project of ILO- DWT for South Asia and Country Office for India Project  on Developing and Implementing Training of Trainers Module on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW) for capacity building among the cotton growing community of Madhya Pradesh, India under the ILO RISE for Impact Project on Promoting Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in the Cotton Supply Chain of India. 

She has designed, coordinated and conducted several policy oriented studies including major projects for the Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India and the ILO- DWT for South Asia and Country Office for India in the areas of child labour, social protection of workers,  informal labour, labour migration, gender issues and prevention of HIV. Some of her recent studies has been on Migration and Portability of Social Security in India- Issues and Concerns, 2024; Social Security in India-Understanding Policy Initiatives under the BRICS Network of Labour Institutes, 2023; Gender, Work and Health in Informal Manufacturing, 2022. 

She has been associated as a Member of several National Level Technical Committees by the Government such as member of Committee of ESIC to formulate the scheme under the Code on Social Security, 2020 for unorganised workers, gig workers and platform workers (currently), Member of Task Force of Experts on Enhancing Benefits under EPS – 1995 (EPFO, 2024); Member of the Drafting Committee on the Consolidation of nine Social Security Laws in to a single Code on Social Security (Ministry of Labour, 2018) which was passed by the Parliament in 2020, Member of the Expert Committee to Assess the Implication of Economic/Financial Cost involved in the Draft Labour Code on Social Security & Welfare (MoLE, 2018), Member of the Sub-committee on Health and Maternity Welfare under the Committee for Formulation of an Action Plan and Model Scheme for Welfare of Building and other Construction Workers (DGLW, 2018), Member of the Committee to estimate the Cost to the Government to provide Incentives for entities that provide Maternity Benefits to their Women Employees (DGLW, 2018), Member of the Working Groups for discussion on Ratification of ILO Convention No. 184 concerning Safety and Health in Agriculture (MoLE, 2018), Member of the Sub-Group on the Gap Analysis in the Agriculture Sector for Ratification of ILO Convention No. 155 (MoLE, 2015), Member of the Expert Committee under the Building and other Construction Workers (RECS) Act, 1996 to suggest amendment to Central Rules (MoLE, 2014), Member Convenor of the National Sectoral Innovation Council constituted by Prime Minister on Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (NSIC-RSBY) in 2011 for preparing a Roadmap for Innovation 2010-2020 (MoLE 2011). 

Her recent article ‘Social Security for Internal Migrants’ has been published in ‘Migration Studies – The Fundamentals’ edited by Avijit Mistri, Md. Selim Reja and Bhaswati Das, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-032-63561-3 (hbk), ISBN: 978-1-032-95842-2 (pbk), ISBN: 978-1-003-58679-1 (ebk), DOI: 10.4324/9781003586791.