07/09/2015 | ||
9:30 am - 11:30 am | Wreath-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 pm | Inauguration Ceremony of the WCO Regional Dog Training Centre | |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Bilateral Meetings | |
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Welcome 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 am | Official 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 am | Keynote Address Eric Maskin, Nobel laureate, Professor, Harvard University Why have global markets failed to reduce inequality in developing countries? | |
10:30 am - 10:45 am | Signing of MOU | |
10:45 am - 11:15 am | Group Photo and Coffee Break | |
11:15 am - 12:00 pm | Keynote Address Mick Moore, CEO, International Centre for Tax and Development International Cooperation: Comparing Trade and Tax | |
12:00pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch | |
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm | Session 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 pm | Coffee Break | |
3:45 pm - 5.15 pm | Session 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 pm | Transfer from Gulustan Palace to Qafqaz Hotel | |
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Gala 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 am | Session 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 am | Coffee Break | ||
11:15 am - 12:00 pm | Keynote Address Edward C. Prescott, Nobel laureate, Professor, Arizona State University | ||
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch | ||
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm | Session 4: Parallel Sessions | ||
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm | Panel 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 pm | Coffee Break | ||
3:45 pm - 4:05 pm | International 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 pm | World 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 pm | Global 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 pm | Capacity 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 pm | Transfer from Gulustan Palace to Qafqaz Hotel | ||
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Gala Dinner hosted by Azerbaijan State Customs Committee |
10/09/2015 | ||
08:00 am - 08:30 am | Transfer from Qafqaz Hotel to Gulustan Palace | |
9:00 am - 10:45 am | Session 5: Parallel Sessions | |
9:00 am - 10:45 am | Panel 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 pm | Coffee Break | |
11:15 am - 12:00 pm | Keynote Address Finn Kydland, Nobel laureate, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch | |
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm | Session 6: Parallel Sessions | |
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm | Panel 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 pm | Coffee Break | |
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Concluding Session Aydin Aliyev, Chairman, Azerbaijan State Customs Committee Robert Ireland, Head of Research Unit, WCO | |
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm | Transfer from Gulustan Palace to Qafqaz Hotel | |
4:15 pm- 5:30 pm | Youth 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 pm | Transfer from Gulustan Palace to Qafqaz Hotel | |
7:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Dinner accompanied with a special music programme Dinner hosted by the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan and with the Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy |