Shiri Cohen Kaminitz graduated from the Hebrew University, PPE program. Her Master’s and PhD dissertations were in the fields History and Philosophy of Sciences, earned respectively at the Hebrew University and Bar-Ilan University. Her Post-Doctorate studies were conducted in the center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University, and in the Economics Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her research interests include Economic and Political thought, focusing on the evolution of Utilitarianism and its changing linkages to politics and economics.