About Us

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The House of Fiscal Wisdom emerges as a critical institutional response to the profound inadequacies of the current international fiscal and financial architecture, which has systematically failed to address the interconnected crises of unfair trade regimes, eroded tax bases, unsustainable debt burdens, climate vulnerabilities, illicit financial flows, economic instability, digitally enabled extraction, and misaligned investment priorities that perpetuate global inequality. Through its Global Commission on Financing Development, HFW challenges the technocratic orthodoxies that have confined fiscal policy discourse to narrow élites, instead democratising these discussions through diverse stakeholder engagement spanning  fiscal decision makers, diplomats, private sector, civil society, scholars, youth and marginalised voices.

Three specialised working groups examining climate finance, digitalisation impacts, and Islamic finance principles support the Commission's mandate, serving as crucial starting points for deeper analytical work.These working groups provide the foundational research and sectoral expertise that inform the Commission's broader recommendations for systemic reform.

All this institutional architecture is supported by a dedicated secretariat that coordinates the complex interplay between the Commission, working groups, and stakeholder communities. The Commission's secretariat serves as the institutional backbone, coordinating this unprecedented convergence of perspectives whilst maintaining analytical rigour and policy coherence.