PENCAST

This Pencast conversation features Dr. Mark Procter, Vice President of Cargo Science and Technology at Rapiscan Systems.

This Pencast conversation features Dr. Mark Procter, Vice President of Cargo Science and Technology at Rapiscan Systems.

This Pencast conversation features Dr. Mark Procter, Vice President of Cargo Science and Technology at Rapiscan Systems.

This Pencast conversation features Nanette van Schelven, Director General of the Customs Administration of the Netherlands, and one of the leading voices in customs innovation.

This Pencast conversation features Nanette van Schelven, Director General of the Customs Administration of the Netherlands, and one of the leading voices in customs innovation.

This Pencast conversation features Nanette van Schelven, Director General of the Customs Administration of the Netherlands, and one of the leading voices in customs innovation.

Today's Pencast features Lars Karlsson, Global Head of Trade and Customs Consulting at A.P. Møller-Maersk, and a world authority in customs, borders and international trade policy.

Today's Pencast features Lars Karlsson, Global Head of Trade and Customs Consulting at A.P. Møller-Maersk, and a world authority in customs, borders and international trade policy.

Today's Pencast features Lars Karlsson, Global Head of Trade and Customs Consulting at A.P. Møller-Maersk, and a world authority in customs, borders and international trade policy.

Today's Pencast features Lars Karlsson, Global Head of Trade and Customs Consulting at A.P. Møller-Maersk, and a world authority in customs, borders and international trade policy.

A wide-ranging conversation with Ana Hinojosa, former Executive Director of US Customs and Border Protection, and current head of ABH Global Trade Consulting. 

A wide-ranging conversation with Ana Hinojosa, former Executive Director of US Customs and Border Protection, and current head of ABH Global Trade Consulting. 

A wide-ranging conversation with Ana Hinojosa, former Executive Director of US Customs and Border Protection, and current head of ABH Global Trade Consulting. 

Today's Pencast features Mr. Tony Smith CBE, former Director General of the UK Border Force, currently Managing Director of Fortinus Global Ltd and Chair of the International Border Management and Technologies Association (IBMATA).

Today's Pencast features Mr. Tony Smith CBE, former Director General of the UK Border Force, currently Managing Director of Fortinus Global Ltd and Chair of the International Border Management and Technologies Association (IBMATA).

Today's Pencast features Mr. Tony Smith CBE, former Director General of the UK Border Force, currently Managing Director of Fortinus Global Ltd and Chair of the International Border Management and Technologies Association (IBMATA).

Today's Pencast features Mr. Tony Smith CBE, former Director General of the UK Border Force, currently Managing Director of Fortinus Global Ltd and Chair of the International Border Management and Technologies Association (IBMATA).

Today's Pencast features the Director General of Abu Dhabi Customs, His Excellency Rashed Lahej Naser Al Mansoori. He has over 20 years of IT expertise, and previously held leadership positions in strategic project management and information systems.

Today's Pencast features Mr. Gerassimos Thomas, Director General of the European Commission's Taxation and Customs Union Directorate, and one of the leading thinkers and actors in the process of EU customs reform. Mr. Thomas has previously held senior positions in finance, energy and elsewhere at the European Commission, and was Deputy Minister for Environment and Energy in his native Greece.

Today's Pencast features Mr. Gerassimos Thomas, Director General of the European Commission's Taxation and Customs Union Directorate, and one of the leading thinkers and actors in the process of EU customs reform. Mr. Thomas has previously held senior positions in finance, energy and elsewhere at the European Commission, and was Deputy Minister for Environment and Energy in his native Greece.

This week's podcast is Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Zsolt Dézi, Senior Training Expert at the National Tax and Customs Administration of Hungary.

This week's podcast is Part 1 of my conversation with Dr. Zsolt Dézi, Senior Training Expert at the National Tax and Customs Administration of Hungary.

Today's Pencast is with Ashley Bell, Assistant Secretary for Customs and Border Modernization at the Australian Border Force. Mr. Bell discusses the role of AI, machine learning and big data in tomorrow's cutting-edge customs administration.

Today's Pencast is with Ashley Bell, Assistant Secretary for Customs and Border Modernization at the Australian Border Force. Mr. Bell discusses the role of AI, machine learning and big data in tomorrow's cutting-edge customs administration.

Today's Pencast is with Ashley Bell, Assistant Secretary for Customs and Border Modernization at the Australian Border Force. Mr. Bell discusses the role of AI, machine learning and big data in tomorrow's cutting-edge customs administration.

Honored today to be speaking with Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, longtime Secretary General of the World Customs Organization, who concluded his distinguished career at the WCO just a short time ago.

Honored today to be speaking with Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, longtime Secretary General of the World Customs Organization, who concluded his distinguished career at the WCO just a short time ago.

Today's interview is with Dragoş Tudorache, Member of the European Parliament, former Chair of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age (AIDA), and the rapporteur on the AI Act for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE).  

Today's podcast looks at the dark, mysterious world of antiquities trafficking, with Axel Kerep, an archaeologist who's developing new technologies to detect and halt illicit trade in cultural property. Axel is the head of the Arti-Fact Project at PARCS Solutions, an organization devoted to cultural property protection via multiple technologies.

This is part 2 of a 2-part Pencast with Edward Kieswetter, Commissioner of SARS (South Africa Revenue Service) and Chairperson of the World Customs Organization.

This is part 1 of a 2-part Pencast with Edward Kieswetter, Commissioner of SARS (South Africa Revenue Service) and Chairperson of the World Customs Organization.

Today we speak with Dr. Damien Romestant, an international expert in the areas of financial crime, anticorruption, compliance, economic sanctions and export controls.  Damien works with private companies, NGOs and EU projects, and is currently Head of Economic Sanctions for the Corporate Crime Observatory.

This is the third part of the conversation with SP Sahu:   Today's Pencast features Satya Prasad ("SP") Sahu, senior trade facilitation specialist at the World Bank.  SP has decades of experience in trade and finance, both with the Indian Ministry of Finance and as Senior Technical Officer at the World Customs Organization.

This is the second part of the conversation with SP Sahu:   Today's Pencast features Satya Prasad ("SP") Sahu, senior trade facilitation specialist at the World Bank.  SP has decades of experience in trade and finance, both with the Indian Ministry of Finance and as Senior Technical Officer at the World Customs Organization.

Today's Pencast features Satya Prasad ("SP") Sahu, senior trade facilitation specialist at the World Bank.  SP has decades of experience in trade and finance, both with the Indian Ministry of Finance and as Senior Technical Officer at the World Customs Organization.

Today's Pencast is with Prof. Andrew Grainger, an academic, teacher and consultant with over 20 years of experience in the field of trade facilitation.  In particular, we discuss his ground-breaking book, Cross-Border Logistics Operations: Effective Trade Facilitation and Border Management.

Today's Pencast is with Jose Luis Perez Diaz, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alcalá and coordinator of MELCHIOR, a Horizon 2020 funded project to rapidly detect drugs, explosives, weapons and illicit goods concealed on or inside people, employing a range of novel, noncontact technologies.

Today's Pencast is with Jose Luis Perez Diaz, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alcalá and coordinator of MELCHIOR, a Horizon 2020 funded project to rapidly detect drugs, explosives, weapons and illicit goods concealed on or inside people, employing a range of novel, noncontact technologies.

Today's episode features Marek Helm, the CEO of GScan, an Estonia-based producer of vehicle and cargo scanning technology that uses recent developments in atmospheric ray tomography.  Data provided by muons, electrons, positrons and neutrons that pass through objects, once processed by AI and machine learning, allows the non-intrusive identification of cargo contents.

Today's conversation is with Micha Slegt, a senior scientist in the customs laboratory of the Customs Administration of the Netherlands. After earning a PhD in chemistry, Micha has worked for Dutch Customs for 17 years as senior chemist and researcher.  He's currently in Brussels for a year, furthering his education via a posting with Belgium Customs.

Meet AELER, a forward thinking logistics firm that brings advanced technologies to the container, the building block of our global economy, and to the ecosystem that surrounds the container. AELER scored second in the recent PEN-CP Innovation Prize. Today's interview features company founder and co-CEO Naik Londono, and Port Network Lead Gadi Benmoshe.

Today's Pencast features Dawn Wilkes, Program Manager of the Security Group at the Universal Postal Union, the primary forum for postal cooperation between governments, Posts, regulators and other stakeholders, whose membership spans 192 countries. Previously, Ms. Wilkes worked at the Global Security Group of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the federal law enforcement branch of the U.S. Postal Service. This episode is the second half of our conversation. A blog post with resources coming soon on the PEN-CP website (https://www.pen-cp.net/blog)

Today's Pencast features Dawn Wilkes, Program Manager of the Security Group at the Universal Postal Union, the primary forum for postal cooperation between governments, Posts, regulators and other stakeholders, whose membership spans 192 countries. Previously, Ms. Wilkes worked at the Global Security Group of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the federal law enforcement branch of the U.S. Postal Service. This episode is the first half of our conversation - the second half will appear next week. A blog post with resources coming soon on the PEN-CP website (https://www.pen-cp.net/blog)

Rupa Ganguli is an Indian social entrepreneur and campaigner for sustainable development and equality within the textile industry. She has founded a series of organizations, including SPINNA Circle and most recently Inclusive Trade, which aims to be the Amazon of fair trade. Inclusive Trade was named "Small Business Champion 2022 ”, a joint award of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), International Trade Center ( ITC ) and the International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC ). Even Trade recently received a prestigious GOLD Investibility rating from Capital Pilot, the investment rating agency.

Enrika Naujokė is co-founder of CustomsClear, an E-learning platform for customs practitioners that aims to engage customs practitioners in continuous professional growth and lifelong learning, and to contribute to the seamless and sustainable movement of goods across borders.

Frank Heijmann is a senior executive in the Customs Administration of The Netherlands, with over 35 years of customs experience. He wrote CUSTOMS: Inside Anywhere, Insights Everywhere, the most complete and up-to-date introduction to the complex world of Customs available in print, published in October 2022 by Trichis Publishing in Rotterdam https://bit.ly/3UFEIbR. Frank is now Head of Trade Relations at the Customs Administration of the Netherlands, and guest lectures at several universities. He also helped to produce the Masters of Science program Customs & Supply Chain Compliance at Rotterdam School of Management, and has taken part in a number of high-level EU research projects.

In 2016, a team of veterans of logistics and transportation founded Hurricane Commerce, a data platform that aims, as the company says, to “be brilliant at the boring.” Hurricane's goal is to create a unified data highway that calculates duty and taxes in real time, while screening out prohibited and restricted goods and denied parties. Company leaders David Spottiswood and Martin Palmer share some of their views of the future of data, and explain how their unified vision of data consistency and transparency will benefit all stakeholders, public and private, in the customs universe.

On this episode we meet Carlos Grau Tanner, the Director General of the Global Express Association (GEA), which represents the three leading express delivery carriers (DHL, FedEx and UPS), members of a US $ 200 billion industry who operate in over 200 countries and territories. Carlos discusses his association's work on issues such as international trade policy, trade facilitation and customs, e-commerce and air cargo security; highlights some of the valuable resources that GEA makes available to the industry and the general public; and speculates on what the future may hold for customs and express carriers, in a world of ever-growing e-commerce traffic.

On the first episode of our Pencast re-launch, we speak with Ricardo Treviño Chapa, Deputy Secretary General of the World Customs Organization, whose diverse background in finance, revenue collection, social security and in customs for Mexico and the Caribbean Region provides invaluable skills and allies for his current role at the WCO. Ricardo's wealth of previous experiences, and his current leadership of an energetic modernization programme at the WCO, give him unique perspectives on the future of customs innovation.

PEN-CP will organize an introductory webinar targeted for all the EU customs administrations who are not part of the PEN-CP consortium, on 14 June 2021. As of today (8 June), we have already nine customs administrations registered for the event! In this PEN-Cast episode, Dr. Juha Hintsa, PEN-CP coordinator, shares ideas and views on how the EU customs new to PEN-CP could start cooperating with our innovation boosting network, already this summer. And, how working together could expand and intensify during the coming 2.5 years, and even beyond that.

PEN-CP will organize an introductory webinar targeted for all the EU customs administrations who are not part of the PEN-CP consortium, on 14 June 2021 (= Penday-June). Email and letter mail invitations have been sent to Customs Directors General, in the 18 EU member states. This PEN-Cast Episode 15 presents key agenda points for the first 75 minutes of the upcoming webinar. In the webinar itself, nine experts from our consortium will deliver 3-4 slide presentations on PEN-CP project outcomes, activities and arrangements.