The fourth Regional Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Middle East Roadmap Meeting took place in Amman, Jordan, from 17‐ to 19 October 2017, back‐to‐back to the 2nd Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) Roadmap Meeting. It was organised by FAO and the OIE under the umbrella of their joint mechanism the Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF‐TADs), in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and with technical support from the European Commission for the control of FMD (EuFMD).