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Education: Law Degree Hons – University of Florence (Italy)
MA in Social Policy and Criminology – The Open University, Scotland (UK)
Diploma in Professional Legal Practice – Scotland (UK)
Resilience Management Post-graduate Diploma, New College Lanarkshire – Scotland (UK)
Admitted: 2010
Year Joined: 2024
Languages: Italian and English
Alessia Morris is a Consultant and Notary Public based in Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) and Milan (Italy)
She is a dually qualified Italian Avvocato and Scottish Solicitor and Notary Public
Alessia is an accomplished leader and has managed teams ranging from small 4-people management teams to more sizeable teams with over 20 staff. Alessia has a track record of experience in leading a number of strategic programmes within the wider public sector in Scotland. Since moving to Scotland, Alessia has led in a range of high-profile areas, including justice, transport, fisheries, public services reform, health and social care improvement, constitutional reform and pre-referendum transition planning, national performance and latterly data and digital innovation. Alessia has also experience of emergency planning and operating in fast-paced environments supporting the response to number of emergencies and high-profile incidents.
Alessia is currently in a part-time role with the Scottish Government. In this post, Alessia ensures greater access to public sector data for research in the public good, delivering new analytical tools and platforms and supporting data sharing. She has also led on elements of the response to the Covid pandemic by enabling data-led research projects helping Scotland recover from the pandemic. More recently, she has supported the wider efforts with the Ukraine humanitarian crisis and the matching of the displaced people from Ukraine with suitable hosts in Scotland.
Alessia has considerable experience in corporate matters and led on the establishment of a number of organisations and dealt with a number of organisational restructurings.
Alessia has developed formidable engagement, and communications skills through stakeholder engagement across institutional boundaries, often at very senior level with science and research-led organisations, and including both Scottish and UK public sectors, and international institutions such as EU, OECD, UN, and UNESCO. Alessia has held a number of non-Executive Director-type roles on a number of UK bodies. She currently sits on a number of advisory boards for research projects.
In her spare time Alessia volunteers at the Legal Clinic of Edinburgh Citizens’ Advice Bureau supporting people from the most disadvantaged communities with a number of family and housing issues and instigating referrals to other advice agencies.
Alessia brings a unique mix of skills and experience relevant to a number of disciplines, including change management, contract management, crisis management, international relationships, organisational restructuring, policy and legislation-making processes.
Alessia combines a pragmatic and solution-driven approach with her breadth and depth of expertise to provide sound and considered advice.
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Alessia authored various reports and articles, including Scottish Government Strategic Review of Legal Aid, and an international comparative review of community resilience resources for the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.