Management Committee

The INCU is managed by the Management

Committee, which controls and manages the
affairs of the INCU and day-to-day activities.
Strategic and advisory support to the Management Committee is
provided by the INCU Advisory Board and administrative support is
provided by the INCU Secretariat.

Professor Dr David Widdowson

PRESIDENT

Professor David Widdowson is Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for

Customs & Excise Studies at Charles Sturt University. He is President
of the International Network of Customs Universities; Editor-in-Chief of
the World Customs Journal, a member of the WCO’s PICARD Advisory
Group, and a founding director of the Trusted Trade Alliance.

David holds a PhD in Customs Management, and has over 35 years

experience in his field of expertise, including 21 years with the
Australian Customs Service. His research areas include trade
facilitation, regulatory compliance management, risk management and
supply chain security.
Professor Dr Hans-Michael Wolffgang
VICE-PRESIDENT

Prof. Dr. Hans- Michael Wolffgang is a professor of law since 1995 and
head of the Institute of Customs and International Trade Law at the
University of Münster, Germany.

He is co-founder of AWA Foreign Trade Academy (1996), AWB Tax

Consultancy (2005) and AWB Law Firm (2008), specialized in customs
law, value added tax law and law of export controls, with branches in
Hamburg and Munich.

Prof. Wolffgang is member of the PICARD Advisory Group to the World

Customs Organization (2008). He is co-founder and vice president of
the International Network of Customs Universities (INCU) and member
of the editorial board of the World Customs Journal (WCJ) since 2005.

Prof. Dr. Wolffgang has written extensively on international trade law,

customs law and export control law.

Dr Andrew Grainger
COMMITTEE MEMBER

Dr Andrew Grainger is trade facilitation practitioner, academic and

educator with over 20 years of experience. As the Director of Trade
Facilitation Consulting Ltd, he is regularly contracted by government
agencies, companies and international organisations around the world.
He is also an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of
Nottingham and collaborates with other leading universities and
research institutes, too. In previous roles, Andrew was the Deputy
Director for Trade Procedures at SITPRO, the UK’s former trade
facilitation agency, and Secretary for EUROPRO, the umbrella body for
European trade facilitation organisations. His PhD thesis in Supply
Chain Management and Trade Facilitation was awarded the prestigious
Palgrave Macmillan Prize for best PhD in Maritime Economics and
Logistics 2005-2008. He has authored many papers within the subject
of trade and customs procedures and is a member of the International
Network of Customs Universities’ (INCU) executive committee.

Professor Dr Yuhao Cong

COMMITTEE MEMBER

Prof. Yuhao Cong is a Doctor, Professor, and doctoral supervisor in

computational mathematics. He previously served as the Vice-President
of Shanghai Normal University and Shanghai University. He is currently
a Deputy to the 15th Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress and the
President of Shanghai Customs College.
Prof. Cong is engaged in higher education teaching and research work.
As an expert in higher education research and management, he has
been extensively involved in university governance. Prof. Cong has
accumulated rich experience in discipline establishment, specialty
development, talent cultivation, international exchanges and
cooperation in terms of higher education. His ongoing practical efforts
and explorations have yielded exceptional results.

His academic research primarily involves numerical solutions for

differential equations. He has presided over four NSFC projects and
more than 10 provincial and municipal natural science foundation
projects, and published over 70 papers in SCI, EI as well as other
authoritative domestic and foreign journals. He has published one
monograph in English, served as Editor-in-Chief of one textbook,
chaired over 10 provincial and municipal educational reform projects,
and won the first prize at the Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award
four times, the second prize at the Shanghai Excellent Textbook Award
once, and the third prize at the Tenth Educational Scientific Research
Achievement Award.

Once a member of China Society for Computational Mathematics, Prof.

Cong is now a Standing Member of China Simulation Federation and
Deputy Director of the National Committee of Simulation Algorithms. He
is an expert engaged by the Ministry of Education for evaluating
undergraduate teaching work. He is also the Vice President of Shanghai
Education Evaluation Society, and is involved in other part-time
academic work. Prof. Cong is the winner of numerous titles and awards,
including the Excellent Young Teacher in Shanghai Colleges and
Universities, the Shanghai Municipal Award for Bringing up Talents, and
several others.
Professor Dr Wieslaw Czyzowicz
COMMITTEE MEMBER

Wieslaw “Wes” Czyzowicz is Professor at Warsaw School of Economics

and Warsaw College of Customs and Logistics and a former Director-
General of the Polish Customs Service. Wes is also President of the
Scientific Board of the oldest professional Polish Customs Journal
“Customs and Tax Law Monitor”, a longstanding Member of the Boards
of CONFIAD, IFCBA and CLECAT, and President of the Consultative
Council to the Director-General of the Polish Customs Service. He has
published over 250 articles and some books on Customs matters.

Mr Samuel Bautista
COMMITTEE MEMBER

Samuel Bautista is a Customs Broker by profession and the Chief

Learning Officer of the Academy of Developmental Logistics which is
involved in professional training and development of logistics and
customs professionals in the Philippines. Currently, he is the Vice
President for International Affairs of the Chamber of Customs Brokers,
Inc. (the national organization of Customs Brokers in the Philippines)
and a member of the Philippines Commission on Higher Education’s
Technical Panel for Customs Education.

He is also a Researcher on Customs & Trade Security and International

Trade Regulations for the Center for Information Convergence and
Strategies (CICS) at San Diego State University in California, a member
of the Management Committee of the International Network of Customs
Universities (INCU), an associated member of the International
Federation of Customs Brokers Association (IFCBA). He is a regular
participant in the World Customs Organizations Partnership in Customs
Academic Research and Development (PICARD) conferences. Sam
graduated Cum Laude with a bachelors degree in Customs
Administration from Lyceum of the Philippines University-Batangas and
completed his Masters degree in Educational Management from the
University of the Philippines.

As a training professional, he was conferred a Diplomate in Workplace

Learning & Performance (DWLP) by the Philippine Society of Training
and Development (PSTD). In a previous capacity, he served as the
Chief of Staff of Customs Commissioner Alberto Lina in 2015 to 2016.