Supporting policy with scientific evidence

Alice Siragusa is the team leader of the JRC project on Localising SDGs. She works at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission since 2015.

In the Territorial development Unit, she focuses on the knowledge support to urban policies and she has been co-editing and co-authoring “the Future of Cities” report and the “European Handbook for SDGs Voluntary Local Reviews”.

In 2022 she has been appointed in expert on urban policy to the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility (MIMS).

At the JRC, she has also been working for the Global Human Settlement Layer project contributing to the Human Planet 2016 and 2017 Atlases.



In the past, she has been collaborating with the Italian National Planning Institute (INU) on several activities related to the Sustainable Development Goals and public space. She co-led the Habitat III Policy Unit 6 on Urban Spatial Strategies: Land Market and Segregation.



She has been visitor scholar at the Columbia University in New York City. She holds a PhD in Regional and Urban Planning from Sapienza University of Rome, and a Master cum lauda in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Roma Tre.