After graduating from classical high school in 1980, Fr Claudio Barretta entered the Society of Jesus. He pursued ordinary studies in Philosophy and Theology at PFTIM, finishing them with a Licentiate in Biblical Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1994. In the meantime he was an educator in a therapeutic community for drug addicts in the Emmanuel Community in Lecce.

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From 1994 to 2000, he was applied to the youth apostolate between the provinces of Naples and Caserta, while he was Vice-Rector of the Naples San Luigi Theologate.

In 2000, having taken his Last Vows, he was called to the task of Rector of the Theologate of Naples and Delegate for Formation for the Province of Italy. In 2008 Fr General appointed him Vice Provincial for Central-Southern Italy and in 2014 Vice Provincial for Italy.

At the same time, he served as President of the Ignatian Educational Centre Association, which then managed the Paritarian School of the same name in Palermo. Superior of the Community of the Gesù Nuovo in Naples since 2017, he was applied to the Administrative-Economic Office of the EUM Province in 2022, while he assumed the presidency of the Jesuit Education Foundation and then that of the Gonzaga Institute in Palermo.

Alessia Fontana is Interim Director of the Jesuit Education Foundation and coordinates the Foundation’s areas of activity: from the charismatic ones of the educational proposal to those related to governance, strategic planning and economic management up to Network communication and fundraising.

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She attended classical high school at the Arecco Institute, Jesuit college in Genoa. Subsequently, she obtained a degree in Economics, qualified as a Chartered Accountant and Auditor and obtained a PhD in Applied Economics and Quantitative Methods.

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In 2016 she met the Society of Jesus again as a professional and began a collaboration with the Foundation to support the administrative staff and carry out coordination activities for the Institutes, with the aim of making the network more solid and cohesive from an economic and management point of view. In 2017, she attended an advanced training course in Management and Administration of Religious Institutes’ parish schools, at the Catholic University of Milan. Subsequently, she attended a diploma course in Leadership and Management at the Gregorian University in Rome.

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Between 2018 and 2019, she was President of the Board of Directors of the Rosetum Foundation, which ran a parish institute in Besozzo, in the province of Varese.

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Since 2022 she has held the position of Secretary General of the Jesuit Education Foundation.

Cristina Moretti studied architecture and worked for more than 30 years in the family business as an administrative secretary: here she acquired consolidated business experience in the field of organisational support and backoffice management.

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Since October 2017, she has been Head of the Administrative Secretariat of the Jesuit Education Foundation: she is responsible for the management of accounting and personnel data, administers financial deadlines, monitors reporting and organises events, also logistically.

P. Jimmy Bartolo SJ – Advisor

P. Nicola Bordogna SJ – Advisor

P. Vitangelo Denora SJ – Advisor

P. Vincenzo Greco SJ was born in Catania in 1964. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1984. After his novitiate in Genoa he studied philosophy in Naples. From 1988 to 1993 he was a teacher in the community of the Gonzaga Institute in Palermo. After theological studies in Paris he was ordained priest in Catania on 21 December 1996.

In 1999 he obtained a Licentiate in Moral Theology at the Accademia Alfonsiana in Rome. From 1999 to 2007 he was in charge of pastoral care at the Gonzaga Institute in Palermo. In 2003 he graduated in Political Science from the University of Palermo. In 2004 he was sent to Chile for eight months for the last stage of his Jesuit formation, and in 2006 he took his Last Vows in the Society of Jesus.

From 2007 to 2010 he was parish priest and superior in Catania and at the same time, for almost two years, Delegate for the Jesuit Youth Apostolate of the Province of Italy.
Since 2010 he has been deputy director of the Arrupe Institute for Political Formation in Palermo and Rector of the Community.

From 2013 he is sent back to the parish SS. Crocifisso dei Miracoli in Catania as minister and vice-parish priest, in 2021 he is appointed Vicario Foraneo by the Archbishop of Catania.

Since September 2022 he has been a member of the community of the Scolasticate of San Saba, of which he became the rector in August 2023.

Angelo Schettini studied at the Social Institute of Turin, graduating in 1991. He then obtained a degree in engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin. In 1998, he entered the Novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Genoa. After formation in Genoa, Padua, L’Aquila, and Rome, he was ordained a priest in 2008. He completed a License in Theology in Boston, United States, and the so-called “third year of probation” in Havana, Cuba.

Berardino Guarino, originally from Naples, is married to Vittoria and is the father of Luca. He holds a degree in Law. Among his positions, he served as National Vice President of the Italian Catholic Action and Head of the Volunteer Center for the Jubilee of the Year 2000.

From 2001 to 2015, he worked as Director at the Centro Astalli, the Italian headquarters of the Jesuit Refugee Service.

Since 2015, he has served as the Treasurer of the Province of Italy of the Society of Jesus and currently of the Euro-Mediterranean Province.

Shega Mirashi, Albanian by origin, born in 1970. She currently coordinates two communities for MSNAs at the ABUSUAN Association – Bari.

She has a degree in Educational Sciences and specialised in Planning and Management of Educational and Training Services (Rome). She also holds a Licence in Religious Sciences with a specialisation in Theological-Ecumenical Studies in Rome.

After her studies, she worked for nine years as a school director in Albania (compulsory education). Her work experience was enriched by various collaborations with the Jesuits within the framework of MAGIS projects in Tirana, as a university tutor at the Public University of Political and Social Sciences, as a collaborator in the area of catechetical pastoral work and also in the area of translations into Albanian.

In 2023, she became a member of the Board of Directors of the Atë Pjetër Mëshkalla School in Shkodra. To give quality to her work and for a holistic approach both to herself and to the people she works with, in 2024 she decided to follow a telematics course as an Expert in “Applied Positive Psychology” Mindfulness at IEPP (European Institute of Positive Psychology) based in Genoa.

Gabriella Tona is Milanese by origin, married, has two daughters and is grandmother of two grandchildren.

She graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Milan and was immediately interested in the world of education. Since 1985, she has been a science teacher at the I and II Grade Secondary School of the Leone XIII Institute in Milan, while continuing her research activities in the early years.

Since 1999 she has been the Didactic Coordinator of the Liceo Classico first and, since 2001, also of the Liceo Scientifico.

From 2004 she was Rector, then Director General of the same Institute, where she ended her service in 2023.

From 2018 to 2022, she was a board member of the Rosetum Foundation, which ran a parish school in Besozzo, in the province of Varese.

Since 2023, she has been a board member of the Massimiliano Massimo Institute in Rome.

Convinced of the profound value of voluntary work, she has always attended it, combining her time with family and work commitments.

Genova, philosophical studies in Padua, and the period of “teaching” spent at the Leone XIII in Milan.

He earned his first-cycle degree in theological studies in Naples, at the PFTIM, and his license in the United States at Boston College. He was ordained a priest in Turin in 2008.

For nine years, he was involved in Pastoral work at the Gonzaga Institute in Palermo, before moving to Rome as Minister and economist at the community of formation for young Jesuits in San Saba, where he also served as Vice Parish Priest.

He collaborates with the activities of Minicourses in Selva di Val Gardena and with the Student Missionary League for Service camps in Peru. Since September 2022, he has returned to Leone XIII as the head of School Pastoral Care.

Antonio Bertolotti, though originally from Milan, is now an adopted Milanese. He graduated in Modern Literature from the University of Milan and served as a teacher of Literature at Leone XIII in Milan, initially at the Lower Secondary School and then at the Classical High School (of which he was Vice Coordinator for six years) and at the Scientific High School.

Since 2008, he has been the Educational Coordinator of the Lower Secondary School at Leone XIII in Milan.

At Leone XIII, he held the position of Institutional Representative for Internationalization and Global Citizenship from 2014 to 2019. Since January 2020, he has been the Curriculum Coordinator for the Euro-Mediterranean Province.

In addition to teaching, he has worked as a translator from English and Spanish and has long collaborated with various educational publishers, engaging in editing and design activities. He has also authored several school textbooks.

He is the author of several collections of poetic texts.

Fabrizio Olati was born in Rome in 1965. He graduated in Architecture and spent 25 years working in communication and marketing for trade companies and public entities. Over time, he became involved in university and post-university education, delivering lectures at the Department of Architecture at the University of Genoa, the Department of Letters and Philosophy at the Free University “Maria Santissima Assunta” (LUMSA) in Rome, and as a Qualified Teacher at IRI Management (Rome), focusing on marketing and communication training and professional development.

However, it was in 2009 that he began teaching regularly at a private school in the province of Reggio Emilia. In 2011, he joined the Istituto Massimo in Rome, where he teaches Technology in secondary education. From 2017 to 2019, he was part of the training team at CeFAEGI (Center for Training for Educational Activities of the Jesuits in Italy).

Josephine Vassallo holds a degree in theology from the University of Malta and has been a teacher of Social Studies in state secondary schools for about thirty years. Until 2008, she worked as an educational officer responsible for Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights. From 2008 to 2013, she served as Assistant Director in the Curriculum Department of the Ministry of Education and was a member of the board of directors of the Maltese Diocesan Seminary.

She served as the National Coordinator for the Council of Europe’s project on Education for Citizenship and Human Rights from 2000 to 2011 and was a lecturer at the Faculty of Education at the University of Malta.

Trained in Ignatian spirituality, she is a member of the CVX and guides Spiritual Exercises. In the 1990s, she taught at the Pijeter MeshKalla High School in Scutari.

Currently, she coordinates courses on the Social Doctrine of the Church with the Diocesan Institute for Pastoral Formation in Malta for various employees working with disabled individuals, the elderly, children, and drug addicts.

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