The International Forest Policy Meeting is a biannual event bringing together scholars working on forest and forest related policy issues. The 4th IFPM is organized by the European Forest Institute’s Governance Programme in collaboration with Wageningen University & Research and EFI’s Forest Policy Research Network coordinated by the University of Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU). Forest Policy and Forest Governance are in constant evolution. This event serves as a platform to exchange knowledge, present current research, discuss synergies and gathering different perspectives from all over the world.