Sister Alessandra Smerilli is Professor of Economics at the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences ‘Auxilium’ in Rome and teaches “Theory of cooperation and organizations with ideal motive” at the LUMSA University of Rome. She is a member of the scientific board and organizer of the social weeks of catholics. She has written several books and papers on civil and political economy. She has a degree in Business Administration with a specialization in Political Economics at the Faculty of Economics of the University Roma 3, she has a PhD in Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics of La Sapienza University of Rome and a PhD in Economics at the School of Economics of the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK).

She is the author of: The Economics of Values-Based Organizations: an Introduction (Oxford 2014), L’altra metà dell’economia. Gratuità, mercati (Rome 2014), La leggerezza del ferro. Un’introduzione alla teoria economica dell’Organizzazione a Movente Ideale (Milan 2011