With a group of colleagues at the World Bank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, ODI and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, I co-organize an annual conference series on topics in public finance with relevance for low and middle-income countries. The next conference will be held on September 25-26, 2025, at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, with Annette Alstadsæter and Tim Besley as keynote speakers.

Previous conferences have covered the following themes:

•  Public Finances and Structural Transformation, September 26-27 2024, Washington DC.
• The Political Economy of Public Finances, September 21-22, 2023, London.
• Global Tax Equity, September 22-23, 2022, Washington DC.
• New Tax Instruments, September 30 - October 1, 2021, on zoom.
• Taxing Personal Income and Wealth, September 24-25, 2020, on zoom. 
• The Value Added of Value-Added Taxes, conference organized jointly with the University of Michigan and Columbia University, May 9-10, 2019, Washington DC.​