WCO PICARD Conference
07/09/2015
9:30 am - 11:30 amWreath-laying Ceremony at the Memorial of National Leader Heydar Aliyev in the Alley of Honorary Burial and Visit to the Martyrs Alley
3:00 pm - 4:00 pmInauguration Ceremony of the WCO Regional Dog Training Centre
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmBilateral Meetings
7:00 pm - 9:00 pmWelcome Cocktail
Hosted by WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya at the Qafqaz City Hotel

08/09/2015
8:15 am Transfer from Qafqaz Hotel to Gulustan Palace
9:00 am - 9:45 amOfficial Opening and Welcome Remarks
Aydin Aliyev, Chairman, Azerbaijan State Customs Committee
Abid Sharifov, Deputy Prime Minister, Republic of Azerbaijan
Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General , WCO
Donhyun Lee, Vice Commissioner, Korea Customs Service , Korea Customs Service
9:45 am - 10:30 amKeynote Address
Eric Maskin, Nobel laureate, Professor, Harvard University
Why have global markets failed to reduce inequality in developing countries?
10:30 am - 10:45 amSigning of MOU
10:45 am - 11:15 amGroup Photo and Coffee Break
11:15 am - 12:00 pmKeynote Address
Mick Moore, CEO, International Centre for Tax and Development
International Cooperation: Comparing Trade and Tax
12:00pm - 1:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 3:15 pmSession 1: Drivers of Incentivization of Customs officers
Siv Rebekka Runhovde, Researcher, Norwegian Police University College
Minette Libom, Director General, Cameroon Customs
M.R. Rajmohan, Senior Deputy Director of Customs, Sri Linka
Robert Ireland, Head of Research Unit, WCO
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmCoffee Break
3:45 pm - 5.15 pmSession 2: Global Value Chains (1/2)
Gaëlle Balineau, Economist , French Agency for Development
Antoine Vion, Professor, Aix-Marseille University
Thomas Cantens, Technical Officer, WCO
5:15 pm - 5:30 pmTransfer from Gulustan Palace to Qafqaz Hotel
7:30 pm - 9:00 pmGala Dinner with the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Orchestra
Gala Dinner hosted by the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan. 

09/09/2015
8:15 am Transfer from Qafqaz Hotel to Gulustan Palace
9:00 am - 10:45 amSession 3: Parallel Sessions
Panel A Innovation in Customs
Igbal Babayev, Azerbaijan State Customs Committee
Valeriya Ermakova, Researcher, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation
Min Wang, Researcher, Shanghai Customs College
Taleh Ziyadov, Director General, Baku International Sea Trade Port
Panel B Fraud and Data (1/2)
Cristina Mitaritonna, Economist , CEPII
Cyril Chalendard, Ph.D. Candidate, CERDI, University of Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
Lofti Ayadi, Researcher, Tunisia
Thomas Cantens, Technical Officer, WCO
10:45 am - 11:15 amCoffee Break
11:15 am - 12:00 pmKeynote Address
Edward C. Prescott, Nobel laureate, Professor, Arizona State University
12:00 pm - 1:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 3:15 pmSession 4: Parallel Sessions
1:30 pm - 3:15 pmPanel A Revenue and Tariff Matters
Theo Colesky, Senior Manager, Enforcement Division, South African Revenue Service
Juha Hintsa, Executive Director, Cross-Border Research Association
Robert Luessi, Vice Director, Swiss Federal Department of Finance, Swiss Customs
Hans-Michael Wolffgang, Professor, University of Münster
Panel B Fraud and Data (1/2)
Cristina Mitaritonna, Economist , CEPII
Cyril Chalendard, Ph.D. Candidate, CERDI, University of Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
Lofti Ayadi, Researcher, Tunisia
Thomas Cantens, Technical Officer, WCO
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmCoffee Break
3:45 pm - 4:05 pmInternational Network of Customs Universities
Mikhail Kashubsky, Head of Secretariat, International Network of Customs Universities
INCU-10 Years of Promoting the Academic Standing of Customs
4:05 pm - 4:25 pmWorld Customs Journal
David Widdowson, Professor, Charles Stuart University; President, International Network of Customs Universities; Editor-in-Chief, World Customs Journal , International Network of Customs Universities
4:25 pm - 4:45 pmGlobal Trade and Customs Journal
John Brew, Partner at Crowell & Moring (United States); Member of the Editorial Board, Global Trade and Customs Journal
4:45 pm - 5:05 pmCapacity Building in Africa and Day 2 Closing Remarks
Christine Msemburi, Executive Director, WCO Regional Office for Capacity Building, East and Southern Africa Region
5:15 pm - 5:30 pmTransfer from Gulustan Palace to Qafqaz Hotel
8:00 pm - 10:00 pmGala Dinner hosted by Azerbaijan State Customs Committee

10/09/2015
08:00 am - 08:30 amTransfer from Qafqaz Hotel to Gulustan Palace
9:00 am - 10:45 amSession 5: Parallel Sessions
9:00 am - 10:45 amPanel A Fraud and Data (2/2)
Rong Hu, Associate Professor, Shanghai Customs College
Shintaro Hamanaka, Economist , Asian Development Bank
Juha Hintsa, Executive Director, Cross-Border Research Association
Panel B Protection of Cultural Property
Tomasz Nowak, Customs Officer, Polish Customs
Esther Portela Vázquez, Researcher, Madrid Destino
Mariya Polner, Policy Advisor, Compliance and Facilitation Directorate, World Customs Organization
10:45 am - 11:15 pmCoffee Break
11:15 am - 12:00 pmKeynote Address
Finn Kydland, Nobel laureate, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
12:00 pm - 1:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 3:15 pmSession 6: Parallel Sessions
1:30 pm - 3:15 pmPanel A Customs Risk Management
Yulia Mazanik, Customs Officer, State Customs Committee of the Republic of Belarus
Oleg Komarov, Customs Officer, State Fiscal Service of Ukraine
David Widdowson, Professor, Charles Stuart University; President, International Network of Customs Universities; Editor-in-Chief, World Customs Journal , International Network of Customs Universities
Panel B Informal Trade
Sami Bensassi, Lecturer , Birmingham Business School
Vanessa van den Boogard, Researcher, University of Toronto
Cyril Roussel, Researcher, French Institute of the Middle East
Cedric Parizot, Researcher, Research and Studies Institute of the Arab and Muslim World, University of Aix-Marseille
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmCoffee Break
3:45 pm - 4:00 pmConcluding Session
Aydin Aliyev, Chairman, Azerbaijan State Customs Committee
Robert Ireland, Head of Research Unit, WCO
4:00 pm - 4:15 pmTransfer from Gulustan Palace to Qafqaz Hotel
4:15 pm- 5:30 pmYouth Forum
Robert Ireland, Head of Research Unit, WCO
Gaëlle Balineau, Economist , French Agency for Development
Mariya Polner, Policy Advisor, Compliance and Facilitation Directorate, World Customs Organization
5:45 pm - 6:00 pmTransfer from Gulustan Palace to Qafqaz Hotel
7:30 pm - 10:30 pmDinner accompanied with a special music programme
Dinner hosted by the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan and with the Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy