Paola Andrea Raffaelli

Paola Andrea Raffaelli is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ethics and Christian Thought, IQS School of Management, Ramon Llull University. Her academic work bridges sustainability, economics, and ethics, focusing on socio-economic justice, social exclusion, and institutional structures.

• PhD in Management (University of Roehampton, 2018)
• MPhil in Social Science Research (University of Roehampton, 2014)
• Master in Social Science of Labour (University of Buenos Aires, 2013)
• Five-year undergraduate course in Sociology (University of Buenos Aires, 2009)

Her research explores the intersection of sustainability, economics, and ethics, with a focus on social innovation, institutional embeddedness, and socioeconomic development. She investigates how economic systems interact with societal structures to address poverty, inequality, and environmental challenges.

Raffaelli's recent publications emphasize the role of cooperatives in societal transformation, the organizing/disorganizing power of money, and comparative studies of solidarity economies in Argentina and the UK. These works highlight interdisciplinary approaches at the macro, meso, and micro levels of analysis.

As a researcher in the Sustainability, Economics, and Ethics (SEE) group, she collaborates on projects analyzing democratization, embeddedness, and social innovation. Her work includes case studies on institutional structures and collectivist economic models.