Greg advises our corporate clients on customs and excise procedures as well as general customs and international trade matters inclusive, but not limited to, customs duty-in-abeyance regimes, customs clearing rules, customs valuation, customs risk analysis, legal methods of negotiating and reduction of customs penalties as well as general advice in event of customs litigation and/or conflict resolution under the Cameroon and CEMAC customs code.
Greg has three decades of working experience in the Cameroon Customs Administration. Between 1982 and 2012 he worked at the highest levels in the Customs Administration. Greg is widely read and has attended training sessions and seminars in various key areas such as:: classification of goods and the harmonized system(1985), the handling of investigations on customs commercial fraud in collaboration with Revenue Canada(1994) Management of Human Resources (2001), the African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) in collaboration with United States Customs (2002), the measuring of Performance in Management in collaboration with IIREC France (2002); Customs training management in collaboration with the Royal Malaysian Customs(2003); Customs Management Techniques in collaboration with Singapore Customs (2006); Trade Facilitation Techniques for African Countries in collaboration with Japan Customs(2006) and The Border Management of Intellectual Property Rights in collaboration with the US Customs. This wide exposure has made him an authority on customs matters. He is an external consultant to Jing & Partners Law Firm and a member of the International Network of Customs Universities (INCU). He possesses excellent writing and oral communication skills in both English and French.
Education:
1982 – Trained at the National School of Adminstration and Magistracy as an Inspector of Financial Services with specialization in Customs Management.
1980 – Obtained an Bachelor of Laws Degree with a major in Public Law from the University of Yaoundé in Cameroon
Professional Career:
1982 – First-line Inspector at Douala Port II Customhouse, Douala
1982 – Assistant Director of South West Region Customs, Limbe, Cameroon
1986 – Brigade Enquiries at Customs Headquarters, Douala, Cameroon
1988 – Assistant Director of Extreme North Customs, Maroua, Cameroon
1991 – Regional Director of Extreme North Customs, Maroua, Cameroon
1993 – Assistant Director of Littoral Customs, Douala, Cameroon
1996 – Assistant Inspector of Services at the Customs Head Office, Douala
1997 – Chief of Principal Customhouse in charge of Exports, Douala
2000 – Regional Director of North West Customs, Bamenda, Cameroon
2002 – Chief of Internal Affairs Division, Customs Headquarters of Cameroon
2007 – Chief of Principal Customhouse Douala Port I, Littoral Region, Cameroon
For 30 years Greg served the Cameroon Customs at various senior
executive positions supervising, coordinating, controlling and
appraising the implementation of the government’s international trade policies in the customs commercial process. During this period he covered all the customs regimes. He was at the helm of the implementation of SYDONIA – the Cameroon Customs computer application that was launched in 2007.He has had dealings with customs authorities in Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and the USA and in each of these countries he undertook trainings in the fields of customs management techniques, trade facilitation, training management and the border management of intellectual property rights.
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