Moderators - Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation



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2009/SOM2/SCCP/ACBD/002

Curriculum Vitae

Submitted by: Singapore

|[pic] |APEC Customs Business Dialogue |

| |Singapore |

| |1 August 2009 |

MODERATORS

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|Mr. Tan Eng Pheng |

|Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore |

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|Eng Pheng is currently the Senior Director at the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. He is in charge of driving IT-enabled |

|business transformation in various economic and social clusters such as trade and logistics, finance, transport, tourism, education etc. |

|His current portfolio includes leadership of a number of iN2015 sectoral initiatives on behalf of IDA e.g. Next Generation ePayment, |

|TradeXchange, Digital Concierge, Infocomm@seaport. Eng Pheng works closely with enterprises in the private sector, as well as government |

|agencies championing development in various industries. In 2009 alone, his team has issued four call-for-collaborations to forge |

|partnerships with private sector companies to catalyse and spearhead transformation in various sectors. |

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|Prior to assuming his cluster development role in end 2005, Eng Pheng spent 18 years in various roles in the Government Chief Information|

|Office of IDA and its predecessor organisation, the National Computer Board. His appointments included that of an Information Systems |

|Manager, a Chief Information Officer, and the Director in charge of eGovernment Planning and Management. In the last capacity from 2001 |

|to 2005, he led the formulation of the S$1.3B eGovernment Action Plan II covering a broad range of ICT programmes for the whole Singapore|

|public sector, as well as the development of infocomm policies, technical standards and enterprise architecture at the |

|Whole-of-Government level. From Oct 2004 to Sep 2005, Eng Pheng also led a team to provide international consultancy to another country, |

|resulting in the establishment of an ICT agency and formulation of a national strategic ICT plan for the country. |

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|Eng Pheng has more than 22 years of ICT experience. He holds a Bachelor of Surveying (1st Class Honours) from the University of |

|Queensland, Australia, and a MSc in Management of Technology from the National University of Singapore. Eng Pheng attended the Stanford |

|Executive Programme in 2004. |

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|Mr. James Goh |

|UPS Asia Pacific Region HQ |

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|James Goh is Region Vice President of International Trade Services for UPS Asia Pacific Region HQ. He is responsible for global trade |

|services and customs facilitation & border management matters, regional strategic business issues, trade management services and customs |

|operations in the region as well as providing trade and customs business management solutions to UPS’ global customers in the Asia |

|region. |

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|A veteran with more than 40 years’ experience in the industry, Mr. Goh joined UPS in 1988 when he assisted the UPS Group to commence |

|business in the region and to penetrate into the Asian market. He was instrumental in the successful set-up of UPS in Asia and was |

|involved in key strategic planning and operations which led to the smooth establishment and expansion of the UPS operations in the Asia |

|Pacific region. |

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|Prior to UPS, Mr. Goh has held management positions in multinational corporations all over Asia. His extensive experience has made him a|

|respected mentor in the industry, leading him to teaching assignments in shipping and logistics management to post graduate students in |

|senior management. Mr. Goh is an advocate of reforms and the evolution of new business models through the use of e-Commerce and free |

|trade, speaking frequently at international forums to promote its business value. He is also a regular participant and speaker in WCO |

|and APEC meetings promoting free trade, global trade liberalisation and facilitation in a “safe and secure global business environment”. |

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|Mr. Goh is a regular Moderator in the Annual APEC Customs-Business Dialogue, and was Special Advisor to various Asian Customs |

|Administrations over the years in organising the APEC Customs-Business Dialogue for the Host Economies. Apart from this, Mr. Goh also |

|provides thought leadership in the area of trade logistics governance and supply chain management to both academics and governments in |

|the region. |

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|Mr. Goh’s last contribution to the APEC cause was when he was invited by Australian Customs Service to be Special Advisor and Main |

|Moderator in the 2007 APEC Customs-Business Dialogue. During that time, he was also the Guest Speaker in the APEC Economic Ministerial |

|Forum sharing his thoughts on “APEC’s Economic Challenges: Breaking down the barriers for growth and integration” and was also the |

|speaker in the APEC STAR V Conference on “Securing the Global Supply Chain to grow the economy” at the invitation of the Australian |

|Government. Just this past year, Mr. Goh spoke and was one of the Session Chair in the most recent NGO Asian Productivity Organisation’s |

|Forum on “Bilateral/Regional Economic Partnership Agreements” held in Bangkok on 17-20 June 2008. The last Customs-related event Mr. Goh |

|was involved in was in Hanoi, Vietnam on 03-06 November 2008 when he was invited by the USTDA to moderate one of the Panel Session on |

|their “Global Customs Initiative: Developing a Risk Management Framework for ASEAN”. |

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|To play his part in promoting economic resilience during the current economic down-turn, Mr. Goh accepted the invitation to share his |

|thoughts in the UNESCAP/WorldBank’s Regional Policy Forum on Trade Facilitation and SMEs in Times of Crisis held in Beijing China during |

|20-22 May 2009 and again on 19 June 2009 where he expounded on the importance of trade to Senior Trade Officials from 25 Asia Pacific |

|Region countries during the WTO Regional Trade Policy Management Course 2009. |

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|Mr. Goh serves in a number of Government-appointed Advisory Panels and Economic Committees on transportation, supply chain & logistics, |

|trade and customs modernisation in a number of Asian countries. He was also previously an Advisory Panel Member of the Dean’s Board of |

|Distinguished Counsellors of the Johnson & Wales University’s Alan Shawn Feinstein Graduate School, Rhodes Island. As an Advisory Panel |

|Member in the Research Consultative Committee of The Logistics Institute of Asia Pacific (TLI-AP), the leading educator in Supply Chain |

|and Logistics Management in the Asia Pacific Region, Mr. Goh is currently most active in pursuing and contributing to the development of |

|trade logistics and Supply Chain management to meet the needs of new business models. |

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|For his service to the Ministry of Finance’s Customs Advisory Committee, Mr. Goh was conferred the PBM Pingat Bakti Masyarakat (The |

|Public Service Medal) by the President of Singapore in conjunction with the 43rd National Day Celebration of Singapore this past November|

|2008. Mr. Goh was recently elected to the Council Membership of the Private Sector Consultative Group of the World Customs Organisation. |

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|Mr. Goh is based in Singapore and resides with his wife and two sons. |

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|Mr. Teng Theng Dar |

|Singapore Business Federation |

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|Teng Theng Dar |

|CEO, Singapore Business Federation (Feb 18, 2008 ~ ) |

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|- APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) – Singapore Member (2003 - Present) |

|- Chairman, APEC Business Advisory Council (2009 ~ ) |

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|Mr Teng, 58, has more than 29 years of management experience in Asia, Australia, and in recent years, the Middle East. He spent ten years|

|each in Japan and Indonesia, four years each in Malaysia and Australia managing businesses in the following sectors: FMCG (Manufacturing,|

|Marketing & Distribution), Commodities trading, Agri-Food, ICT, Energy-saving solutions & products, and Construction. |

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|His key appointments include being chairman of SBF's Middle East Business Group, vice-chairman of the Saudi-Singapore Joint Business |

|Council, Co-chair of Guangdong Singapore Business & Economic Council and Singapore's Non-Resident Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman. |

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|Aside from being the Special Advisor to the Singapore Plastic Industry Association, Mr. Teng is a member of: |

|- Singapore Customs Advisory Committee |

|- Pro-Enterprise Panel (an initiative of the Ministry of Trade & Industry, Singapore) |

|- Oman- Singapore Joint Committee |

|- Singapore-Guangdong Collaboration Council |

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|Mr Teng is active in charity work, and is a Trustee of Heartware Network, and General Council member of the National Arthritis |

|Foundation. |

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|He graduated from the School of Commerce, Waseda University, Japan in March 1979 and is a member of the Japanese University Graduates |

|Association of Singapore. |

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|SPEAKERS |

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|Ms. Julie Olarenshaw |

|Australian Customs and Border Protection Service |

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|Julie Olarenshaw commenced with Customs in 1988 and spent her first seven years in the international passenger environment where she was |

|responsible for several drug seizures and successful prohibited import prosecutions. |

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|Julie spent the next 5 years as a Customs Investigator focusing on community protection and fraud matters during which time she was |

|seconded to the National Crime Authority combating organised crime. She then worked closely with industry groups and other government |

|agencies in managing two Melbourne Compliance Teams. |

|Her move to Canberra from Melbourne in November 2004 to take up the Director Standardised Data Set Project position saw a change in focus|

|from operations management to developing future strategies for international trade reporting. Having completed developing the Enhanced |

|Trade Solutions 2015 strategy, Julie now chairs the APEC Sub Committee on Customs Procedures Single Window Working Group and represents |

|Australian Customs in a wide range of domestic and international fora. |

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|Mr. Park Jong-Pil |

|Korean Customs Service |

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|Park Jong-Pil is the Deputy Director of the Information Planning Division of the Korea Customs Service (KCS). He started his customs |

|career in Daegu Regional Customs House in 1989. Jong-Pil was also seconded to the Christchurch Customs, New Zealand Customs Service and |

|the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Prior to his current appointment, he was the Assistant Director of KCS’ International Cooperation |

|Division. He is currently married with a son and a daughter. |

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|Mr. Winston Tay |

|Singapore Customs |

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|Winston Tay started his career with Singapore Customs in 1996 after graduating with a Bachelor of Accountancy from the National |

|Technological University of Singapore. He was appointed Singapore Customs’ head of its Research & International Branch in 2001 and then |

|went on to head various branches that focused on trade facilitation. Throughout his customs career, he was actively involved in the |

|development of Singapore’s Single Window, TradeNet. He is currently the head of the Schemes Promotion and Administration Branch. |

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|Mr. John T. Cann |

|Microsoft Operations Pte Ltd |

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|John T. Cann is the Asia Pacific Regional Business Development Manager for Microsoft’s Global Strategic Accounts Group.  He is |

|responsible for overseeing and managing the firm’s relationships with multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors, governments, partners, and |

|beneficiaries on projects throughout the region.  Mr. Cann has more than 20 years of experience designing and implementing information |

|technology solutions in some of the most difficult environments in the world.  Mr. Cann joined Microsoft after two decades of management |

|and technology consulting in the public and private sectors, and in the international foreign assistance markets.  Mr. Cann holds a |

|Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Virginia, and a Masters in International Business and Commerce Policy from George Mason |

|University in the United States.  |

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|Mr. Allen Bruford |

|World Customs Organization (WCO) |

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|Allen Bruford is Deputy Director of the Facilitation Sub-Directorate at the World Customs Organization. Prior to taking up his current |

|position, he worked for the New Zealand Customs Service in a variety of executive level roles, including a diplomatic posting to the New |

|Zealand Embassy in Washington D.C. working on customs, security and trade related issues. In the Customs area his experience includes |

|trade negotiations, trade risk assessment, cargo examination, revenue collection, and the audit and oversight of customs controlled |

|areas. From 2000 to 2005 he led the introduction of trade facilitation and security programmes in New Zealand including the container |

|security arrangements with the United States. During his career Allen has also been responsible for managing New Zealand’s largest ports|

|and airports. |

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|Mr. Takashi Matsumoto |

|Ministry of Finance, Japan |

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|Mr. Takashi Matsumoto has more than 30 years Customs experience in Japan mainly at the international affair and capacity building areas |

|particularly a policy adviser to Indonesian Customs from 1996 to 1999 and APEC Sub-Committee on Customs Procedure (SCCP). Mr. Takashi has|

|worked for the WCO Regional Office for Capacity Building Office (ROCB) in Bangkok since in June 2004 to June 2009 as head of the ROCB. |

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|Mr. Robert (Rob) Barton Auslander |

|Advanced Micro Devices (S) Pte Ltd |

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|Mr. Robert Barton Auslander is a global Supply Chain Executive with extensive expatriate and working experience in Asia (particularly |

|China), EMEA and the Americas. His significant focus areas are in procurement, channel assembly & distribution, logistics, sales & |

|operationas planning, inventory mgmt, manufacturing operations. Throughout his extensive working experience, Rob has: |

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|Migrated AMD’s channel processor in a box business ($400M) from a build to forecast to a build to order fulfillment model - yielded in |

|excess of $20M in inventory savings. |

|Reduced AMD’s PIB channel inventory from average of 14 weeks to 3 weeks via collaborative (POS) planning process. |

|Consolidated and optimized AMD’s global distribution centers (5) and order fulfillment network enabling on-time delivery > 98% with full |

|in-transit –on-line visibility through an automated application. |

|Reengineered Dell’s RMA and reverse logistics network in Latin America, Canada & Mexico to achieve a $ 10 M annual savings out of a $ 70 |

|M spend. |

|Created Dell’s Global Logistics function – leveraged the $ 400 M spend through carrier and network optimization for Asia bound freight to|

|the United States. |

|Structured VAT and duty reduction assembly programs in: China (Bonded & FICE) Brazil (Recof), Mexico (NAFTA), Colombia & Argentina |

|(like for like), Netherlands (EU VAT) and the United States (FTZ). |

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|Ms. Nancy Tai |

|Yeon Technologies |

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|Nancy has over 20 years of experience in IT management. Her career has covered several industries including banking, health care and |

|manufacturing. For the last 7 years, Nancy has devoted herself to developing applications based RFID solutions. |

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|In 2003, Nancy led an RFID team in Georgia-Pacific responding to Wal-Mart’s RFID mandate. Her wealth of knowledge and experience with the|

|subject matter made her speaker in several RFID conferences in US, Asia and Europe. |

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|In January 2004, Nancy was named the co-chair of Pilot and Implementation workgroup in EPCglobal, the RFID standard development |

|organization, and served the workgroup for several years. Under Nancy’s leadership, practical RFID deployment tools were developed and |

|posted on the EPCglobal web sites to help companies deploy RFID. |

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|In April 2006, Nancy joined YFY Paper in Taiwan and established Yeon Technologies, focusing on RFID product development and providing |

|standard based professional RFID solutions. Nancy maintains close contact with RFID leaders around the world and has direct access to |

|global RFID standard development processes. |

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|Nancy is very familiar with the RFID requirements made by Wal-Mart and other retailers. She also understands the business value this |

|technology can bring to the organizations. In addition to the RFID implementation in manufacturing and at retails, Nancy also provides |

|similar solutions for transportation and logistics to enhance supply chain security and efficiency. |

|In recognition to her industrial insight and experiences, Nancy has been appointed as advisor to several government as well as industry |

|focused committees in Taiwan. |

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|Mrs. Lee Ju Song |

|International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Asia |

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|Mrs Lee Ju Song is the Director of the ICC Asia Office. |

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|She is also Chair of the ICC-World Chambers Federation Certificate of Origin Task Force and a member of the ICC-WCF World ATA Carnet |

|Council and ATA Carnet Administrative Committee. |

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|An economist by training, she is actively involved in promoting international trade facilitation as ICC-WCF Carnet Advisor. |

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|Her active involvement in trade facilitation matters and capacity building programmes brings her to work with various international and |

|regional organisations in promoting international trade facilitation, trade and investment co-operation, economic integration, trade and |

|e-documentation and chamber management. These include World Customs Organisation, WTO, UNDP, UNCTAD, World Bank, APEC, ASEAN, SAARC, |

|CACCI and Customs Training Colleges. |

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|Mrs. Lee was also active in fostering regional co-operation and had been Asean-CCI Asean Section Secretary-General of the Asean EU |

|Business Council and Asean New Zealand Business Council, ASEAN Canada Business Council, a Council Member of ASEAN-US Business Council. |

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|She graduated from the University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Social Science (Hons). |

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|Mr. Lok Hwee Chong |

|CAPEC/TNT Express Worldwide |

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|Lok Hwee Chong is the Regional Customs and Regulatory Affairs Manager for TNT Express covering the Asia Pacific region and the current |

|chairperson of the CAPEC Customs Facilitation Working Committee (CFWC). He works closely with the TNT national customs clearance teams |

|ranging from countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam to Japan and Korea, to ensure compliance of TNT operations while ensuring |

|that the service standards for express delivery are consistently met. He has in-depth understanding of origin, classification and |

|valuation issues having worked as a consultant at the PricewaterhouseCoopers' Worldtrade Management Services practice based in Singapore.|

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|Besides his extensive private sector experience, Hwee Chong have also worked for the Singapore Ministry of Trade & Industry, served at |

|the Mission of Singapore to the European Communities based in Brussels, and recently also at the ASEAN Secretariat's Bureau for Economic |

|Integration and Finance. In his various roles, he has consistently helped companies to navigate the complex trade and customs regulations|

|of accessing concessions, resolving refunds and negotiating solutions. |

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|Mr. Koon Hon-Chuen |

|Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department |

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|Mr. Koon joined the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department in 1982 as a Customs Inspector and is currently serving in the post of |

|Superintendent of the Intellectual Property Investigation (Administration and Support) Group, Intellectual Property Investigation Bureau.|

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|During his 27 years of service in the department, he had served as a training instructor in the Customs and Excise Training School. He |

|had also worked extensively in the area of investigation. He had engaged in drugs investigation and financial investigation duties. |

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|He was posted to the Intellectual Property Investigation Bureau in 2006 and took up the posts of Divisional Commander of the Copyright |

|Investigation Division and Intellectual Property Investigation Support Division. He then transferred to the current post in 2009. He |

|has gained profound experience in the area of intellectual property rights investigation and protection. |

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|Mr. Rafael Reano Azpilcueta |

|National Superintendence of Tax Administration - SUNAT |

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|Mr. Rafael Reaño holds a Law Degree from the Universidad de Lima, Peru and he also holds a LL.M. Degree in International and Comparative |

|Law with mention in Foreign Trade from The George Washington University of the United States. |

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|Until May 2008 Mr. Reaño was the Manager of Customs Procedures, Harmonized System and Operators of SUNAT’s Intendancy of Customs |

|Technical Operations, where he was in charge of evaluating permanently Customs regimes, Tariff Nomenclature application, and authorizing |

|the activities of foreign trade operators. |

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|Currently Mr. Reaño is the Manager of International Agreements and Valuation of the above mentioned Intendancy and he is in charge of |

|evaluating permanently the regulation on application of International Agreements undersigned by Peru in Customs matters and the valuation|

|system, as well as the activities related to institutional and international technical cooperation. |

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|Mr. Reaño is the chief customs negotiator in Customs Cooperation Mutual Agreements negotiations and is also the coordinator in customs |

|related matters in Free Trade Agreements negotiations. He also is the customs representative in the Local Technical Group for the support|

|of the Peruvian negotiators in Trade Facilitation of the Doha Round. |

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|Before joining Peruvian Customs, Mr. Reaño was in the private practice as lawyer in international trade and in commercial law. He also |

|was professor on Customs Taxation in the Master Program on Taxation and Fiscal Policy of the Universidad de Lima, Peru. |

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