Vanessa van den Boogaard
Research Fellow, International Centre for Tax and Development
at the University of Toronto and Institute of Development Studies
I'm a political scientist specialising in the politics of taxation and informal institutions, the political economy of development, and conflict and statebuilding.
I am a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) at the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex) and a Senior Research Associate at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (University of Toronto). At the ICTD, I lead the research programme on informality and tax with Max Gallien.
I am also an Individual Member at WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing), a Fellow at the Centre on Armed Groups, and a Fellow at the Governance and Local Development Institute. Previously, I was a Fellow at the Institute of Municipal Finance and Governance and Massey College.
I completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto and have mixed methods, qualitative, and experimental research experience. I am the recipient of the Vincent Lemieux prize, recognizing the best PhD thesis in political science in Canada (2019-2020), and I received honourable mention for the African Politics Conference Group Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award (2022). In 2020, I was named one of the TaxCOOP's 35 leaders of the future.
In the coming year, I'm planning to attend the following conferences — please be in touch if you'll be around!
Local Governance and Development Institute conference (Gothenburg, May 2024)
DSA (London, June 2024)
IAFFE (Rome, July 2024)
ECPR (Dublin, August 2024)
For interest in collaboration or to view my CV, please contact me directly. My pronouns are she/ her.
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