2025 Annual Congress of the IIPF
The 81st Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) will be held at the United States International University - Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, from August 20-22, 2025.
The theme of the keynote speeches - to be delivered by Rema Hanna, Niels Johannesen, Ravi Kanbur and Oyebola Okunogbe - is "Public Sector Capacities".
Prospective contributors, both practitioners and academics, are invited to submit papers on any topic within the field of public economics.
Selected papers from the 2025 IIPF Congress will be published in a special issue of International Tax and Public Finance.
The Scientific Committee is chaired by Prof. François Gerard (University College London, UK) and Dr. Shafik Hebous (International Monetary Fund, USA).
The Local Organizing Committee is chaired by Prof. Amos Njuguna (United States International University, Kenya) and Prof. Dina Pomeranz (University of Zurich, Switzerland).
Please consult the congress website for further information.
Congress announcement flyer (400 KB)
Call for Papers (full size, 9 MB) / Call for Papers (reduced, 1.3 MB)
Submission website (ConfTool)
Submission fee payment
Registration (via ConfTool)
Program overview (status 1 August)
Detail session program
Congress website
2026 Annual Congress of the IIPF
The 82nd Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) will be held at ISEG Lisbon, Portugal, from August 24-26, 2026.
The Local Organizing Committee comprises Professors António Afonso, José Borges Alves and João Pereira dos Santos (all ISEG Lisbon).
The Scientific Committee is chaired by Professors Naomi Feldman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) and Dirk Foremny (University of Barcelona, Spain).
The overall topic of the congress / keynote speeches is "Public Finance in Turmoil".
Prospective contributors, both practitioners and academics, will be invited to submit papers on any topic within the field of public economics.
The Call for Papers will be published and submissions will be possible from December 2025 to February 15, 2026; decisions on acceptance expected in April 2026.
2027 Annual Congress of the IIPF
The IIPF Board of Management and General Assembly of Members, at their meetings during the Annual Congress 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, decided to hold the Annual Congress 2027 in Warsaw, Poland (second half of August 2027).