Vanessa van den Boogaard

Vanessa is a political scientist specializing in the politics of taxation and informal institutions, the political economy of development, and conflict and statebuilding. Her work on informal taxation includes a focus on taxation by non-state armed groups, exploring the dynamics and implications of different modalities of revenue generation by armed actors.

She is a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Tax and Development, where she co-leads the research programme on Informality and Taxation with Max Gallien. She is based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

Featured work

• Articles & reports

  Vanessa van den Boogaard and Fabrizio Santoro (Forthcoming 2022) Financing governance beyond the state: Informal revenue generation in south-central Somalia, African Affairs.

  Vanessa van den Boogaard and Fabrizio Santoro (2022) Co-financing community-driven development through informal taxation: Evidence from south-central Somalia, Governance.

  Tanya Bandula-Irwin, Max Gallien, Ashley Jackson, Vanessa van den Boogaard and Florian Weigand (2022) Beyond greed: Why armed groups tax, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.

  Vanessa van den Boogaard, Wilson Prichard, Matthew Sterling Benson and Nikola Milicic (2018) Tax revenue mobilization in conflict-affected developing countries, Journal of International Development 30, 2: 345-64.

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