The World Customs Organisation (WCO) has announced that its PICARD Conference will take place in Hammamet, Tunisia, from 26 to 28 September.
This year’s conference will feature a broad spectrum of academic, governmental, and private sector entities and think-tanks, including the Borders In Globalisation Project, Global Financial Integrity, the World Bank Group, World Economic Forum (WEF) and several universities from Australia, Austria, Canada, China, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Tunisia, United Kingdom and the United States of America.
According to the WCO, presenters were chosen from a competitive pool of over 80 submissions, and will feature Customs officers from India, Malawi, Switzerland, Peru and Turkey who will present their ongoing research on topics such as security, trade facilitation and the application of data analysis to Customs processes.