The document summarizes the experience and qualifications of a customs officer and policy analyst with extensive experience in regional integration initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa. Over 25 years of experience includes working as a customs officer, designing public education on tax regimes, and training customs officials from several countries on trade agreements, rules of origin, and customs procedures and systems. Academic credentials include a PhD student specializing in trade facilitation, a Master's in policy studies, and a Bachelor's in public administration.

1. Profile
Experienced Customs officer, policy analyst and trainer; well versed in regional
integration matters, expert in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
(COMESA), East African Community (EAC) and Southern Africa Development
Community (SADC) Tripartite Free Trade Area. Some of the salient responsibilities
demonstrating abilities include the following:
• Customs Expert: Worked as an officer of Customs from 1995 to date.
• Taxpayer Educationist: Designed and delivered public education on tax
regimes and obligations for four years (2005 to 2008);
• Customs International Trainer:
 Part time lecturer of Taxation Law to Master’s degree Students at the
University of Lusaka;
 Trained Customs officials of Zambia in the Harmonized System, Rules of
Origin, Trade Agreements and Regional Integration (1997 to date);
 Trained Eritrean Customs Officials in HS Classification, Rules of Origin,
Valuation, Intelligence, Investigations and Post Clearance Audit (2009);
 Trained the Seychelles Customs in the harmonized System and how to
transpose it from one version to the other (2011);
 Resourced at the COMESA, EAC and SADC Private Sector Workshop on
Rules of Origin in Johannesburg, South Africa (March, 2011)
 Resourced at the Tripartite Government Awareness workshop on the
proposed Tripartite Rules of Origin (Nairobi, Jan. 2011).
 Coached the Libyan government and Customs officials on what they
need to do to implement the COMESA Customs Union (June 2010);
 Resourced at the COMESA private Sector Business Forum Conference
in Kampala in July 2010; and
 Piloted the COMESA Regional Customs Bond Guarantee System
between Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.
Academic Qualifications
2015 PhD Student specializing in Trade Facilitation – University of Lusaka.
2004 Master’s Degree: Master of Policy Studies - University of Zimbabwe and Fort
Hare.
1992 Bachelor of Arts Degree: Public Administration - University of Zambia.
Other trainings
• Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System - World Customs
Organisation, Brussels, Belgium (1997).
• International Management: How to get the maximum output through team
building, competence identification, utilisation and harnessing - World Customs
Organisation, Brussels, Belgium (1997).
• Measuring Time taken for Clearance of Goods through Customs - World
Customs Organisation, Johannesburg, South Africa (2006).

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