PEN-Cast

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.   Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/2DLQb4UW36U

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.   Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/DlV530PZmk8  

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.   Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/QYJbsB7TwHc

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.   Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/bwgD5r8LNI4

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.   Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/U2aAA9HEDsg

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.   Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/_7kYoLsei8w

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.   Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/-s5LdHl3VZc

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.   Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/g8qRPNByTWw

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.   Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Vp15joxBAJgMLzXJjktRS?si=40fe...

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.   Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/24UYAkqGqiEXbJp1R6x4Of?si=9f70...

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.   Listen on Spotify: https://...

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.   Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/...

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.   Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com...

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...

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...

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 ), Internatio...

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 Relat...

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 som...

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-c...

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 lea...

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...