Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Trento, Department of Sociology and Social Research. She also collaborates with Euricse (European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprise). She is currently part of the European Research Board of the International Alliance of Cooperatives and EMES network on the study of social enterprise. She is a member of the Chief Editorial Board of the Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity published by Euricse, and is Associate Editor of the European Management Journal. The next publication is the volume edited for Routledge (together with Asimina Christoforou and Michele Mosca) on Social Regeneration and Local Development. Cooperation, Social Economy and Public Participation.

Research interests: institutional and organisational solutions that improve social inclusion and social justice, study of the governance of social enterprises and cooperatives, in order to understand how these organizations can contribute to respond to the main social and environmental challenges of today.