Maria Tullia Galanti is Associate Professor in Political Sciences at the University of Milan, where she teaches public policy and policy evaluation at the BA and MA level. She is editor of the Rivista Italiana di Politche Pubbliche and member of the editorial board of Policy and Politics. Her research interests are on the theories of the policy process and on the role of agency, with particular reference to policy entrepreneurship, policy leadership, policy advice and brokerage. She is currently principal investigator of a funded research project on the role of the experts in the localisation of the SDGs at the local level. She has published on the policy dynamics in the field of local public services, urban planning, labour and education policies. Her recent work is published in Policy Sciences, Policy and Society, International Review of Administrative Sciences.