Global Dialogue on Customs Capacity Building 

2 October 2008

Conference

9:00 am – 09:30 am	Opening remarks Welcome address by Mr. Mike Eland, Director General Customs, HM Revenue and Customs, UK and by Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, WCO Secretary General-elect Introduction by Mr. Pravin Gordhan, Commissioner South African Revenue Service, former WCO Council Chair and Chair of the 2007 Global Dialogue Conference in Johannesburg/South Africa
09:30 am – 11:00 am (presentation by each keynote speaker followed by a panel/Q&A session)	Institutional perspective Sustainable economic development strategies: Capacity Building in Customs – a major pillar of economic reform Mr. Koos Richelle, Director-General EuropeAid Co-operation Office, European Commission  Mr. Ransford Smith, Deputy Secretary General, Commonwealth Secretariat Mr. Max Everest-Phillips, Senior Governance Advisor and Head of the Tax Task Team, Department for International Development (DFID) London Mr. Richard Eglin, Director, Trade and Finance and Trade Facilitation, World Trade Organization Chair: Mr. Doug Tweddle, Director, Customs and International, HM Revenue and Customs, UK
11:00 am – 11:15 am	Coffee break
11:15 am – 12:45 am (presentation by each keynote speaker followed by a panel/Q&A session)	Institutional perspective Sustainable development strategies: Ways to ensure efficiency and coherence of development aid. Mr. Gerard McLinden, Senior Trade Facilitation Specialist, Trade Department, The World Bank Mr. Jaseem Ahmed, Asian Development Bank Mr. Takashi Matsumoto, Director of the WCO Regional Office for Capacity Building in Asia/Pacific region Chair: Mr. Doug Tweddle, Director, Customs and International, HM Revenue and Customs, UK
12:45 am – 2:00 pm	Lunch ( cold/warm finger food in the ICO conference facilities served)

Afternoon session:	Topic: Sustainable Customs development – the stakeholder perspective
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm (presentation by each keynote speaker followed by a panel/Q&A session)	Sustainable Customs reform strategies - Implementation and impact The beneficiaries vision: Mr. Chriticles Mwanza, Commissioner General of Zambia Revenue Authority Mr. A. Zaghnoun, Director General, Morocco Mr. Luis Salvo, Director General, Uruguay - implementing reform: requirements and achievements - the potential of further progress - what is needed to progress Chair: Mr. Doug Tweddle, Director, Customs and International, HM Revenue and Customs, UK
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm	Coffee break
3:30 pm – 4:45 pm (presentation by each keynote speaker followed by a panel/Q&A session)	Sustainable Customs reform strategies - The stakeholder`s role in Customs reform – demand, benefit and input · Mr. Peter Malinga, Commissioner, Uganda’s Revenue Authority (URA) · Ms Margareta Drzeniek Hanouz, Director, Senior Economist, World Economic Forum · Mr. Harald Schönfelder, Managing Director, FedEx Chair: Mr. Martyn Dunne, WCO Council Chair
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm	Closing speech by Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, WCO Secretary General-elect
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm	Reception (Cocktail at the ICO Conference Centre offered by HM Revenue & Customs)

Global Dialogue on Customs Capacity Building  

3 October 2008

Workshop

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Venue: HM Revenue & Customs, 100 Parliament Street, Westminster LondonSW1A 2BQ, UK

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