Dr Eleanor Meda Chipeta

Eleanor Meda Chipeta is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Wits Business School and serves as the Southern Africa Regional Research Lead at the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from UNISA, an Honours degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, and both a Master of Commerce degree and a PhD in Social Entrepreneurship from North-West University. Her research interests are in entrepreneurship with particular focus on social entrepreneurship. She has explored key areas such as the antecedents to social entrepreneurial intentions, gender differences to social entrepreneurial intentions, the effect of bias, personality, and cognitive variables in social enterprise formation. This body of work has equipped her with the requisite skills to assess social entrepreneurial activity in South Africa.