Tax revenue mobilization in conflict-affected developing countries

Vanessa van den Boogaard is a Research Fellow at the ICTD and a Senior Research Associate at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. She completed her PhD thesis on informal revenue generation and statebuilding in Sierra Leone, and has ongoing research on the topic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia. Vanessa leads the ICTD’s new programme on civil society engagement in tax reform and co-leads the research programme on informal taxation.

Wilson Prichard is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Chair of the Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) and former Executive Officer of the International Centre for Tax and Development (2020-2024). His research focuses on the relationship between taxation and citizen demands for improved governance in Africa.

Nikola Milicic is a Digital Learning Coordinator in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Dr Matthew Sterling Benson is a social and economic historian of Africa in the Conflict and Civicness Research Group (CCRG) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where he is Research Fellow and Sudans Research Director, leading research on both Sudan and South Sudan and affiliate staff in LSE’s Department of Economic History. Matthew’s research interests include the changing nature of war, state and armed group finance, and state formation in the 21st century. Matthew is currently writing a book manuscript examining the history of revenue and different forms of often coercive rule in both Sudans. He holds a PhD in History and an MA in Social and Economic History from Durham University, an MA in Governance and Development from the IDS at Sussex, and a BA in International Relations from Tufts University.