Professor of economics and former dean of the economics faculty at the University of Bologna; member of the board of LUMSA University, Rome; member of scientific board of the doctoral program in economics at the Catholic University of Argentina; international adviser to DISCERN (institute for Research of the Sign of the Times); former member of the scientific committee of Ente L. Einaudi of the Bank of Italy; co-editor of Economia Politica, a quarterly review published by Il Mulino; editor of Areté, a quarterly review published by Maggioli; member of the editorial boards of Sociologia, Migration Studies and Diritti umani e diritto internazionale; associate editor, Iternational Review of Economics; fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences; fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna, Modena and Milan; member of the academic committee of Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Center at Harvard University; presidenr of Agenzia per le ONLUS (Italian Charity Commission); Doctor honoris causa, Charles University, Prague; “Cardinal Raùl Silva Henrìquez” Medal, Universidad Catòlica Silva Henrìquez, Santiago Chile (2011); 3rd annual Premio Sentinella del Creato (2011); Honorary Degree in economics, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid (2010); 18th annual Premio Internazionale per il Dialogo fra i popoli e le loro Culture; International Prize on “Economics and Society”, Centesimus Annus Foudation, Vatican City (2013); Premio San Benedetto, Fondazione Sublancense, Subiaco (2013); member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Since 2013 – Doctgor H.C. in Political Economy, Universidad de Cordoba (Argentina), 2014. Doctor H.C. in Economics; Universidad Catolica de Cordoba (Argentina), 2014.