Marine Siva is a Policy Officer at the Commission for Economic Policy (ECON) of the European Committee of Regions (CoR) in Brussels. She specialises in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ensuring the follow-up of the CoR opinion "SDGs: a basis for a long-term EU strategy for a sustainable Europe by 2030".  She contributes to raising awareness through events and stakeholders involvement, and regularly provides technical expertise on this topic to CoR members and hierarchy. She also actively works on the monitoring of the SDG implementation process at regional and local level. Prior to ECON, Ms Siva promoted development cooperation with third countries at the CoR, coordinating the NICOSIA initiative with Libyan municipalities, and co-organising with DG DEVCO a major event on decentralised cooperation with mayors from developing countries.  She has gained extensive experience in EU external affairs from working at the French Permanent Representation to the EU, as well as at the Brussels office of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region. She holds degrees in European Affairs and EU International Relations from King's College London and the College of Europe.