The global watchdog has set a deadline of March 22 for cities to submit an expression of interest to host the conference, where the WADA President will be elected.

WADA said it believes 2025 was "timely for the global community to gather under one roof once again on the occasion of a sixth World Conference".

Exact themes will be drawn up closer to the conference but WADA director general Olivier Niggli said last week that he did not expect a substantial review of the World Anti-Doping Code to take place at the event.

Meetings of the WADA Executive Committee and Foundation Board - set to be changed to Governing Board and General Assembly, respectively, under a series of governance changes passed in Paris - will be staged on the sidelines of the conference.

The 2025 Conference will mark the end of the Presidential and vice-presidential terms, which last for three years.

Witold Bańka was elected WADA President at the last World Conference on Doping in Sport, held in Katowice, Poland in November 2019.

Bańka's first three-year term is due to expire in 2022.

WADA said the 2025 conference "will engage the anti-doping community in high-level discussion and debate about the global anti-doping programme, practices and processes; and, allow the community to take stock of progress being made towards the November 2019 Katowice Declaration".

The declaration called upon "all stakeholders in the fight against doping in sport to reinforce their efforts to strengthen their cooperation in every possible way; to present a unified front to strive to eradicate doping in sport; to increase resources dedicated to protecting clean sport; and, to bring all perpetrators to account, without limitation".