Michael Humphrey is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. was appointed to the Chair in Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney in February 2007. He is a graduate of Macquarie University in Anthropology and Comparative Sociology (BA Hons 1975, PhD 1983) in Sydney. He has held positions at the University of Western Sydney, Macquarie University and the University of NSW. At UNSW he… 

Wolfram Elsner is a Full Professor of Economics (retired) at University of Bremen, Germany. He received his PhD and Venia Legendi (“Habilitation”) at the University of Bielefeld. He worked as a head of regional economic development at city level and Head of Planning of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, State of Bremen, as well as Director of the State’s economic research institute (1986-1995). After his appointment as a professor in 1995, he continued to work as a state advisor for… 

Ricardo Sebastián Piana es Abogado – Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP). Doctor en Ciencia Política – Universidad del Salvador (USAL) y doctor en Ciencias Jurídicas en (UNLP), Argentina. Es miembro del Instituto de Integración Latinoamericana (UNLP) y del Instituto de Análisis Políticos y Electorales (UCALP). Actualmente es Vicerrector Académico de la Universidad Católica de La Plata. Dirige y ha dirigido proyectos de investigación vinculados a las reformas del Estado y la Administración en contextos locales. Categorizado II en el sistema… 

Nora Morales de Cortiñas es psicóloga social y profesora en la facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.​ Desde 1998 es Titular de la cátedra de «Poder Económico y Derechos Humanos».​ Desde 1977 Nora Cortiñas forma parte de las Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora, quienes reclaman a las autoridades el castigo para los culpables de los secuestros, torturas y desapariciones forzadas de aproximadamente 30 000 personas durante la dictadura militar de 1976 a 1983. Viaja por todos los continentes llamando a la solidaridad… 

Massimo Franchi is strategic consultant for multinational organisations. At the University of Parma he is a member of the Laboratory of Market Law and New Technologies (DiMeTech) and was a junior and senior research fellow, witness and adjunct professor in the supplementary course of Political Risk in the FRIM master’s degree. At the University of Calabria, he is an adjunct professor at the II level Master in Intelligence and a member of the Intelligence Lab. At the University of Modena… 

Arianna Fermani is Associate Professor in History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Macerata (February 1, 2022: National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor); President of the Council of Unified Classes in Philosophy at the University of Macerata; member of the international association “Collegium Politicum” (ttp://www.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/inst_lucio_anneo_seneca/investigacion/collegium_politicum Official Member of the “International Plato Society”; member of the Board and National Secretary of SISFA ( Italian Society of History of Ancient Philosophy); President of the Macerata Section of the Italian Philosophical Society.… 

Filippo Barbera is Professor of economic sociology at the CPS Department of the University of Turin and fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Torino). He is member of the Foundational Economy Collective and of the Forum Inequalities and Diversities. His research interests are social innovation, foundational economy and development of marginal areas. His recent publications include Alternative Food Networks: An Interdisciplinary Assessment, 2018, Palgrave Macmillan (eds. with A. Corsi, E. Dansero, C. Peano), and The Foundational Economy and Citizenship, Bristol,…