Sara Thabit

Short bio

Sara is a Scientific Policy Officer at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. Trained in architecture and urban planning, she studies how cities can govern and share data to create public value. Her research on Hamburg’s urban data platform examines what happens when responsibility for data is distributed across public organisations.

She previously advised local and national governments through UN-Habitat, where her work included strategic planning and metropolitan governance. She co-authored UN-Habitat’s smart city governance playbook and the Smart City Code handbook.