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BUILDING MOMENTUM FOR EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIP

Conference co-chaired by:

Riza Mehmet Korkmaz, Director General for the EU and External Relations, Turkish Customs

Susanne Aigner, Deputy Director, World Customs Organization

Bryce C Blegen, CEO, Trusted Trade Alliance

Opening session

2010: The WCO Year of Customs-Business Partnership

Hayati Yazici, Minister of State, Republic of Turkey
Mustafa Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, President of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey
Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, World Customs Organization
Walter Deffaa, Director General, Taxation and Customs Union, European Commission

Session I: “Customs in the 21st Century” Globally Networked Customs: Concept, Key Elements and Goals

Moderator: Virginia S. Cram-Martos, Director, Trade and Timber Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Nöel Colpin, Administrator, Belgian Customs and Excise
Tai Bok Lee, Deputy Commissioner, Korea Customs
Mike Norgrove CBE, Director Customs and Excise HMRC
Carol West, Secretary International Federation of Customs Brokers Associations, Chair of the WCO Private Sector Consultative Group

Session II: “Customs in the 21st Century” contd. Coordinated Border Management and Intelligence-driven Risk Management

Keynote: Mark Roland Thomas, Lead Economist, World Bank, Turkey

Moderator: Gareth Lewis, WCO

Juan Jose Bravo, Director General, Aduana Mexico
Rıza Mehmet Korkmaz, Director General for the EU and External Relations, Turkish Customs
Stephen Holloway, Associate Director, Asia-Pacific, Trusted Trade Alliance & Dean of Studies, Centre for Customs and Excise Studies, University of Canberra

Session III: Customs-Business Partnership: New Perspectives for Trade

Keynote: Ömür Gebeş, General Manager & Sinem Şenkaya, Foreign Affairs Expert, Customs and Tourism Enterprises Co. Inc.

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Hans-Michael Wolffgang, Chairman, European Forum for Foreign Trade (EFA) and Dean, University of Münster School of Law

Marianne Rowden, President and CEO, American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI)
Peter Wilmott, Presidant, Europro
John Kok, General Manager CSI, HPH
Harald Schönfelder, Managing Director, Global Trade Services, FedEx

Session IV: Partnership Paradigms: Time for a Course Adjustment?

Keynote: Antonis Kastrissianakis, Director Security & Safety, Trade Facilitation & International Coordination, European Commission

Moderator: Zhaokang JIANG, Chair, Customs & Trade Committee, American Chamber of Commerce, China

Matthias Merz, Managing Director, Europe, Trusted Trade Alliance
Kazuhiko Koguchi, Deputy Director-General of Customs and Tariff Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan
Edmundo Elias, Baker & McKenzie, Mexico

Session V: The role of information and data in Trade and Transport Logistics

Keynote: Miguel Lopera, President & Chief Executive Officer, GS1

Moderator: Valentina Mintah, Senior Solutions Specialist Customs & Trade Facilitation -IT, Crown Agents

Alan Long, Managing Director of MCP plc & Member of the IAPH Trade Facilitation and Port Community Systems Technical Committee,
Pascal Ollivier, Head of Corporate Development, SOGET & Member of IAPH Trade Facilitation and Port Community Systems Technical Committee
Igbal Babayev, Chief of Head Department for Statistics & Information Technologies, Azerbaijan Customs
Jean Acri, Special TIR Advisor – Legal Affairs & Customs Policy/Head Customs Affairs, IRU
Cahit Soysal, Chief Advisor, International Transporters’ Association of Turkey