Tarek el Sehity is Assistant Professor of Wealth Culture at Sigmund Freud Private University where he works on the development of a socio-psychological model of wealth culture. He is a lecturer on the psychology of money at the University of Vienna, a lecturer on business psychology at the LUISS in Rome, a researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology at CNR (Italy) on the question of the cognitive and social mechanisms; Research orders by the State Ministry of Lazio (Italy) to the perception of poverty in Rome; Europe-wide study on the introduction of the Euro; Author of Geldgabe - zur Psychologie des Geldes (2010, co-written with Erich Kirchler).