Roy Lagolago is the newly appointed Head of the PACER Plus Implementation Unit (based in Samoa) an international organisation setup to implement the PACER Plus Agreement, strengthen the capacity of Pacific countries to benefit from PACER Plus as well as other regional and international trade agreements. Roy has a background in law enforcement, security, intelligence, investigations, and trade.

Bill Gain is the Global Lead for Trade Facilitation, Customs Reform and Border Management within the World Bank Group’s Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice where Bill leads the implementation of trade facilitation & border management reform in over 70 countries.

He has over 39 years’ experience in undertaking management and leadership roles with a focus on Customs reform and modernization, trade facilitation, border management and private sector development reform implementation in developing and conflict affected countries.

Prior to joining the WBG, he was Associate Director & Manager for New Zealand and the Pacific at the Centre for Customs and Excise Studies at the University of Canberra. Prior roles also include a 30 year career with New Zealand Customs. Bill holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2000) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business (HR & Change Management), from the University of Auckland, New Zealand (1996).

Stanley Trief is currently the Manager of the Vanuatu electronic Single Window (VeSW) Project. The VeSW Project is funded by the Enhance Integrated Framework (EIF) and the Australian Government with support from the Vanuatu Government. Using ASYCUDA World as the system’s platform, the VeSW Project commenced in 2019.

Prior to managing the VeSW Project, Stanley was the Manager of Vanuatu’s ASYCUDA World Project from 2016 – 2018. The Project was to upgrade the Customs system in Vanuatu from ASYCUDA++, which Vanuatu was using since 1999, to the latest version of ASYCUDA.

Stanley is a customs manager by profession, managing the Customs Border Control and Enforcement unit of Vanuatu Customs from 2011 to 2015. He is also a qualified Computer Science graduate and was managing the Information, Communication and Telecommunication unit of Vanuatu since 2004 prior to moving to Customs operations.

In the Pacific region, Stanley has conducted multiple Customs modernization assessments in Pacific Island countries since 2006 to 2019, before the borders closed due to the pandemic.

Stanley holds a Bachelor of Science from the New Zealand University of Waikato and a Master of International Customs Law and Administration from the Australian University of Canberra. He is passionate about implementing reform and modernization initiatives in both Customs and in the areas trade of facilitation.

Jayvee is the Regional Coordinator for the Pacific for ASYCUDA, the largest UNCTAD technical cooperation programme. He started with UNCTAD for the ASYCUDA Project in the Philippines in 1997. Jayvee was posted in Timor-Leste and Malaysia from 2002 to 2014, where he supported more than 20 country projects in Asia and the Pacific. He moved to Suva, Fiji in November 2021 where his office is involved in customs modernization projects in 15 countries and territory.