Chiara Saraceno was a former research professor at Berlin’s Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung (Scientific Center for Social Research) and has taught Sociology of the family at Turin University. She was a member of the Investigative Committee on Poverty and Social Exclusion in Italy, which she then chaired from 1998 to 2001. She is honorary fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto of Turin and she regularly contributes to the newsdaily la Repubblica.She has conducted research on family, gender and generation relations, social policies, and poverty. On the latter subject, she has produced two reports, both published by Il Mulino: Povertà e benessere. Geografia delle disuguaglianze in Italia (2007, with A. Brandolini) and Dimensioni della disuguaglianza in Italia, povertà, abitazione, salute (2009, with A. Brandolini, A. Schizzerotto). Among her other publications are: I nuovi poveri (with P. Dovis, Codice Edizioni, 2011); Cittadini a metà (Rizzoli, 2012); Coppie e famiglie (Feltrinelli, 2012); Eredità (Rosenberg & Sellier, 2013); Sociologia della famiglia (with M. Naldini, 2007 and 2013), Onora il padre e la madre (with G. Laras, 2010), Conciliare famiglia e lavoro (with M. Naldini, 2011), Il welfare (2013), Stranieri e disuguali (with N. Sartor, G. Sciortino, 2013), all published by Il Mulino.