This international conference aims to review the rate of progress in the field of FMD vaccines and vaccination programmes, diagnostics, and the science of progressive control (risk management decision making and programme optimization), and to identify priorities for investment in science that would have greatest impact for regional and perhaps global control efforts, which would be presented at the FAO/OIE Global Conference on FMD Control in Bangkok, Thailand on 27-29 June 2012. The conference is jointly organised by FAO and the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), under the broad umbrella of the FAO/OIE Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Diseases.