National trade facilitation committees in emergency situations

Dr. Tsendsuren Davaa is a senior customs officer and Secretary of the Trade Facilitation Working Group of the General Customs Administration of Mongolia. She has over 26 years of practical and academic research experience in Mongolian Customs. Her career started as an examination officer and promoted team leader, senior officer and deputy director of the department over the last 10 years.

Tsendsuren holds a master's degree in Public Finance from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Study in Japan and she received her Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from the National University of Mongolia. Her customs career development took advantage of the capacity building programme which the WCO developed for its Member Customs administrations.

In 2016, she was selected to participate in the WCO-Career Development Programme. In this opportunity she worked at the WCO Secretariat for 10 months.

Over the years she has attended various WCO, WTO and UN workshops and seminars, including a trade facilitation, risk management and customs modernization. In 2017, she was accredited as WCO Customs Technical and Operational Advisor.

To date, her 32 articles and research have been published at the the national and international level. Her academic interests include trade facilitation, risk management, customs valuation, customs modernization and coordinated border management. She is a visiting professor of National University of Mongolian and Citi University of Mongolia.

Dulguun Enkhbaatar is currently working as Customs officer at International Cooperation Division of Mongolian Customs General Administration. Her responsibilities are Developing project proposals and liaising with donor organizations to secure funding for capacity building events for customs official; Contact point of the multilateral cooperation.

She has graduated CQU with her Master in Business Management in 2016. She has also been appointed as a national consultant of the National Trade Facilitation Empowerment Programme at United Nation Conference on Trade and Development since 2020. Among her responsibilities are: Desk research regarding the identification and collection of relevant national emergency regulations and measures affecting trade issues in Mongolia; Develop a rapid response plan and a matrix containing all national emergency regulations and measures related to trade issues, that are put in place in emergency/crisis situations in Mongolia; Contribute to the development of action plans for the National Committee of Trade facilitation.

Enrique J. M. Carrillo Gómez is the Director of Economic Multilateral Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Paraguay, in this capacity he leads the Technical Secretariat of the National Trade Facilitation Committee and assists the Committee’s National Coordinator in administrative and technical matters. A career diplomat, First Secretary Carrillo Gomez previously served as Deputy Chief of Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (2019 – 2021); Delegate at the Permanent Mission of Paraguay to the United Nations in New York (2013 – 2019); Head of the Department for Public International Law at the Legal Counsel to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Public International Law (2012 – 2013); and Head of the Department for Legal Affairs of Regional Integration at the General Directorate for Economic Policy (2011 – 2012).

Ms. Ingrid Huapaya Puicon is currently the Customs and Trade Facilitation Coordinator for the Ministry of Trade and Tourism of Peru. In this role, Ms. Huapaya has negotiated customs procedures and trade facilitation provisions, as well as facilitated customs-to-customs cooperation for international trade agreements. Ms. Huapaya is part of the management team for Peru’s National Trade Facilitation Committee and supports Peru’s implementation of the WTO Trade FacilitationAgreement.She is also a contact point on technical working groups on customs and transport underAPEC (SCCP),the Pacific Alliance and the Andean Community. Ms. Huapaya holds a law degree, asfinisheda Master’s degree (Tax Law) at Universidad Católica del Peru.

Mr Harold Tarosa is currently a Director at the Department of Customs and Inland Revenue in Vanuatu. He is the Chair of the National Trade Facilitation Steering Committee (NTFC) who is passionate for the implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement in Vanuatu. Mr Tarosa is a member of the COVID- 19 Health Emergency Advisory Committee (HEAC) who advocates and facilitate the movement of people and cargos in and out of the country, both through Air flights and Sea board cargos. The HEAC provides advice to the government and people during this pandemic crisis. Mr Tarosa has been working for customs for almost 16 years, therefore holds excellent knowledge on customs legislation, processes and procedures and Customs risk managements. Mr Tarosa displays positive work ethics in conduct and behaviours, towards his working colleagues and clients.

Silvia Chauke is currently a risk manager at the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority. She is passionate about Trade Facilitation and advocate for the smooth movement of goods in the international supply chain through the application of best practice and Customs Risk Management principles.

In 2021, Silvia was contracted as the Zimbabwe National Consultant to develop and conduct a Rapid Scan of Trade Facilitation Preparedness in times of Crisis in Zimbabwe under the UNCTAD - Trade Facilitation COVID-19 & Crisis Response Package.

Besides being an active member of the National Trade facilitation Committee (NTFC) and UNCTAD certified Zimbabwe NTFC Trainer, Silvia also spearheads the implementation of some of the WTO- TFA measures particularly Risk Management activities and the Authorised Economic Operator program.

Silvia possess a set of distinct knowledge of Customs legislation, processes and procedures, Customs Risk Management, Trade Facilitation and Supply Chain security coupled with my strong technical experience and educational background. Silvia has a positive attitude and values other people`s professional expertise in finding solutions to challenges faced in Trade Facilitation.

Frank has over 20 years of experience as a senior private sector development specialist with an extensive track record in strategy, programme delivery and management in fourteen countries in Africa and six in Asia. Frank has been the Chief Executive Officer of TradeMark East Africa since October 2010 and prior to this was a private sector adviser for DFID and Country Director for Care. Frank started his career in the financial sector, as an International Fund Manager and Investment Analyst in the UK. Over the years Frank has designed and overseen over 40 major innovative and successful programmes totalling over $1 billion in the fields of trade, financial sector development, privatisation, investment climate reform, market development and skills development. Frank holds two Masters degrees in Economics and Archaeology, and is an IMRO certified Fund Manager.

Since January 2018, Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa has been the Deputy Secretary General of the WCO. Prior to this, with a public sector career spanning 20 years, he was appointed as General Administrator of Customs by the President of Mexico in 2015, with ratification by the Senate.

Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education) in Mexico and a Master’s degree in Global Banking and International Finance from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Ricardo Treviño Chapa has driven an important change in WCO through the implementation of the Strategic Plan 2019-2022. With a strong commitment to transparency, to Member engagement in the decision-making process and to continually seeking out innovative processes, he has been working together with the WCO Secretariat team to implement actions during the current health crisis enabling the WCO to keep moving forward, while at the same time promoting the international flow of legal trade, essential goods and vaccines.