Helen Alford

She was born in London and graduated with a doctorate in engineering from the University of Cambridge. Alford taught at Cambridge after receiving her doctorate. She entered the order of Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena in 1994.[2] Alford teaches courses on economic ethics, the history of technology, labor politics, and Catholic social thought; most of her teaching since becoming a Dominican has been at the Angelicum, a university founded and administered by members of that order. Her first assignment there was in 1996; in 2009, she was named full professor. She was elected dean of the social sciences faculty in May 2001 and re-elected for three further terms. She later became vice-rector and then, once again, dean of social sciences in 2021.[3]

Her numerous publications address questions of social ethics, health equity, and the responsible distribution of wealth.[4] She also contributed many editorials to the journal OIKONOMIA: rivista di etica e scienze sociali. A selection of her publications follows:

• Fondare la responsabilità sociale d'impresa: contributi dalle scienze umane e dal pensiero sociale cristiano. Rome: Città nuova, 2008.
• Rediscovering abundance: interdisciplinary essays on wealth, income, and their distribution in the catholic social tradition. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
• Managing as if faith mattered: Christian social principles in the modern organization (with Michael Naughton). Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001, 2008.
• Responsabilità sociale d'impresa e dottrina sociale della Chiesa cattolica. Milan: F. Angeli, 2010.
• Il carcere degli esclusi: le condizioni civili degli stranieri nelle carceri italiane (with Alberto Lo Presti). Cinisello Balsamo: Edizioni Paoline, 2005.
• Preaching justice. Contributions of Dominican sisters to social ethics in the twentieth century (with Francesco Compagnoni and Mary McAleese), several volumes. Dublin: Dominican Publications, 2016.