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Hassan Baage – Section Chief, United Nations Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate
Mr. Hassan Baage currently serves as Chief of Section within the Counter-Terrorism Committee
Executive Directorate (CTED) of the United Nations, having previously served as Senior Legal
Officer, responsible for border control and management (including customs and immigration controls) and for aviation and maritime security. Mr. Baage is also the representative of CTED to the Working Group on Border Management Related to Counter-Terrorism of the United Nations
Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF). Prior to joining the United Nations, Mr.
Baage served, from 1998 to 2005, as Senior Technical Officer with the World Customs
Organization (WCO), working notably on the development of the international standards on cargo security (SAFE Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade); development of bilateral and multilateral agreements to enable mutual administrative assistance in customs matters; and working with WCO member States to achieve harmonization and increased effectiveness in their compliance programmes. Before joining the WCO, Mr. Baage held a variety of posts with the Canada Border Services Agency, in Ottawa, working notably on the evaluation of national revenue programmes, management and coordination of national compliance and antismuggling programmes, and development of policy and strategic approaches for border compliance.
Craig Bradbrook – Director, Security and Facilitation, Airports Council International
Craig Bradbrook joined Airports Council International as Director, Security & Facilitation in
September 2006, after more than 26 years in law enforcement and airport management. Before joining ACI he held a general manager position with the Airport Authority Hong Kong and was in charge of airport security, safety, contingency planning, environmental services and service delivery performance monitoring at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA). At ACI, he is responsible for the Security, Facilitation and Airport IT portfolios. He is also responsible for leading the implementation of the ACI service quality improvement strategy for its member airports, through the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Programme.
Doug Brittin – General Manager of Air Cargo Security, U.S. Transportation Security
Administration
Doug Brittin joined the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Air Cargo Office in June 2007 as Air Cargo Manager, where he was responsible for the development of the Certified Cargo
Screening Program, as well as policy, forwarder programs and technology development. He has held executive level sales, marketing and operational positions within the transportation and logistics industry at companies such as BAX Global, Panalpina, Emery and Menlo Worldwide.
Doug has over 30 years’ experience in the industry, including the rail and trucking sectors. He was promoted to General Manager of Air Cargo Programs at TSA headquarters in Arlington, VA in May
2010. His area of responsibility now also includes international air cargo policy, all-cargo programs, vulnerability assessments and stakeholder relations. In his capacity as General Manager, Doug manages a budget of $122 million and a staff of over 90 headquarter security experts, program managers and contractors. Doug is a graduate of the University of Denver.
Allen Bruford – World Customs Organization
Allen Bruford is Deputy Director Facilitation & Compliance of the World Customs Organization.
Prior to taking up his current position he worked for the New Zealand Customs Service in a variety of executive level roles. Most recently, he was located in the New Zealand Embassy in Washington
DC working on customs, security and trade related issues. In the Customs area he has experience with trade negotiations, trade risk assessment, cargo examination, revenue collection, audit and oversight of customs controlled areas. From 2000 to 2005 he lead the introduction of trade facilitation and security programmes in New Zealand including container security arrangements with the United States. New Zealand is acknowledged as an innovative administration with its recent work in the area of export supply chain management and mutual recognition being at the forefront of international best practice. During his career Mr Bruford has also been responsible for managing New Zealand’s largest ports and airports.
Shari Currie – Director for Air Cargo Security, Aviation Security Directorate, Transport
Canada
Shari Currie is the Director of Air Cargo Security at Transport Canada leading the design of an enhanced Canadian Air Cargo Security Program. With more than 15 years experience in the notfor-profit sector and the public service, Ms. Currie has focused her career on program development and evaluation. Working primarily in South East Asia, Africa and Central Europe, Ms Currie designed and evaluated democratic development programs and training activities for elected

officials and parliamentary staff followed by three years as the Executive Director of the Centre for
Legislative Exchange developing educational events, activities and opportunities for consultations amongst elected and senior government officials. Ms. Currie has worked at National Defence,
Public Safety Canada and the Treasury Board Secretariat in the areas of communications and public relations, emergency management and regional operations. Ms. Currie specialized in strategic studies and international relations at the University of Manitoba.
Paul Fujimura – Deputy Director, Transportation Security Administration
Paul Fujimura became a Transportation Security Administration employee in February 2010, and joined the Office of Global Strategies (OGS) in March 2011 where he serves as Senior Advisor in the International Operations directorate. Prior to joining OGS, Paul served as the Director for
Policy, Communications and Compliance in TSA’s Office of Transportation Threat Assessment and
Credentialing (TTAC) where he ensured the TTAC Infrastructure Modernization program aligned with TSA and DHS policy priorities and counterterrorism mission. Fujimura came to TSA after five years at DHS Headquarters in the Office of International Affairs where he was the Director for
Asia/Pacific and later the Chief of Staff. Prior to the events of September 11, 2001, he was a
Foreign Service Officer assigned to the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for
Counterterrorism (S/CT) where he provided policy oversight of efforts to rescue two Americans held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group. As part of his portfolio in S/CT, he became involved in managing several State Department counterterrorism capacity building initiatives.
Fujimura began his career in public service with the U.S. Navy; he served with Attack Squadron
115 based in Atsugi, Japan, and completed 38 combat missions during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. After graduate school, Fujimura taught political science at the U.S. Naval
Academy. Fujimura is a graduate of the University of California (Berkeley) and the Naval
Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
Todd Gick – Toyota Motor North America
Todd Gick is general manager of parts business management and logistics control at Toyota Motor
Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA), located in Erlanger, Kentucky. TEMA supports Toyota's engineering and manufacturing operations in North America. In this role, he is responsible for service parts determination and quality assurance, exports parts planning/operations as well as customs operations and logistics compliance. Mr. Gick joined
Toyota in 1996 as a project planning and management specialist. In 2000, he was promoted to assistant manager at TEMA’s corporate strategy division where he established regional manufacture vs. purchase investigations and supported new plant location studies. Four years later, he returned to production control where he progressed through a series of promotions from
2004-09. During this time he focused on project planning and management. Prior to joining
Toyota, Mr. Gick held positions in industrial engineering, manufacturing and operations at
Cummins Engine Co. He has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from Ball State University in Indiana. Mr. Gick is on the Board of Directors for the nonprofit group, Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) and a member of the
Women’s Leadership Group at Toyota. Mr. Gick also enjoys coaching youth baseball and basketball and is a native Cincinnatian. He resides in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife Cindy and three children Gabrielle, Ethan and Ryan.
Allen Gina - Assistant Commissioner, Office of International Trade, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection
On March 15, 2011, Mr. Allen Gina was appointed Assistant Commissioner, Office of International
Trade (OT), U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security (CBP, DHS).
Prior to that, he served as Assistant Commissioner, Office of International Affairs (INA) – a position he assumed on November 9, 2008. From October 2007 to November 2008, Mr. Gina was the
Deputy Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Intelligence and Operations Coordination (OIOC).
From June 2004 to October 2007, Mr. Gina was the Executive Director overseeing the Container
Security Initiative and Secure Freight Initiative offices. From February 2003 to May 2004, Mr. Gina was detailed to the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security to help setup the new
Department of Homeland Security (DHS). While at DHS he served as Director of Agency
Coordination. Mr. Gina is currently a career member of the Senior Executive Service. Mr. Gina began his career in 1983 as a Customs Inspector for the U.S. Customs Service. Throughout his career, Mr. Gina has held numerous managerial positions including Supervisor and Chief
Inspector, Program Manager of the Anti-Smuggling Division, Director of the Industry Partnership
Programs, Director of the Outbound Programs and Director of the Office of Border Security. Mr.

Gina holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Arts and Sciences from Queens College,
New York, New York. Mr. Gina is also a graduate of the Office of Personnel Management
Executive Potential Program and the Harvard - Kennedy School of Government Senior Executive
Fellows Program. In 2008 the President of the United States conferred the rank of Meritorious
Executive on Mr. Gina for relentless commitment to excellence in public service.
Janette Haughton – Convenor, Business Mobility Group (BMG)
Janette Haughton is the Regional Director for the Americas, based in the Australian Embassy in
Washington. She is responsible for Australia’s visa operations in North and South America as well as liaison work with various government agencies. Prior to her current position, Janette was the Assistant Secretary of the Offshore Biometrics Branch in the Australian Department of
Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC). The branch has responsibility for expanding the Department’s biometrics program to include selected visa applicants offshore. As the Global Manager, she also managed a program to increase the use of commercial partners to provide visa application lodgement services for the Department. Janette managed DIAC’s Identity Branch from 2004 to
2010. She had responsibility for identity management and for identity fraud policy, the implementation of biometrics in DIAC, document fraud analysis and document examination training. She also managed the Department's involvement in the whole-of-government National
Identity Security Strategy and in a number of international identity initiatives. She chaired both the
Inter-Governmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees (IGC) Technology Working
Group from 2005 to 2008 and the Five Country Conference Biometrics and Technology Sub-Group
(2005 – 2010). In other Senior Executive positions, Janette has managed the Department's investigations and compliance functions. She has worked in a wide variety of immigration-related areas over the last 20 years, including migration planning and economic policy, skilled migration and overseas operations. She has undertaken a number of short-term overseas missions and another long-term posting to Russia. Janette holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Queensland and a Post Graduate Diploma in Information Management.
David Heyman - Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Previously, David Heyman served as a Senior Fellow and Director of the CSIS Homeland Security
Program where he led the CSIS' research and program activities in homeland security, focusing on developing the strategies and policies to help build and transform U.S. federal, state, local, and private-sector homeland security institutions. Heyman is an expert on terrorism, critical infrastructure protection, bioterrorism, and risk-based security. He has led or contributed to a number of studies on aviation security, nuclear security, bioterrorism preparedness, and pandemic flu planning. He also was the principal architect of, and helped run, "Steadfast Resolve," a cabinetlevel tabletop exercise that examined critical decision making at the National Security Council and
Homeland Security Council during the next potential terrorist attack. Heyman also is an adjunct professor in security studies at Georgetown University. Heyman has served in a number of government positions, including as a senior adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Energy and at the
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on national security and international affairs.
Prior to that, he was the head of international operations for a private-sector software/systems engineering firm developing supply-chain management systems for Fortune 100 firms. He has worked in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. Heyman has authored numerous publications, including "America's Domestic Security" in Five Years After 9/11 (CSIS, 2006); Model Operational
Guidelines for Disease Exposure Control (CSIS, 2005) —which has been utilized by cities and states across the country and was the basis for some of the government's pandemic flu planning guidance; DHS 2.0: Rethinking the Department of Homeland Security (CSIS/Heritage Foundation,
2004); and Lessons from the Anthrax Attacks (CSIS, 2002). Heyman has testified before a number of committees in Congress and has appeared in various media outlets including NPR, CNN, BBC,
FOX News, and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
To Tu Hung – Deputy Director, Department of Aviation Security, Civil Aviation Authority of
Viet Nam (CAAV)
Mr. To Tu hung has worked for the Civil aviation Authority of Viet Nam (CAAV) in various capacities since 1997. In 2008, Mr. Hung became Deputy Director of the Department of Aviation
Security, CAAV, in charge of international cooperation and collaboration; development, maintenance and implementation of the National Civil Aviation Security Programmes (NCASP,
NASTP, NQCP); assessment the ASP of aircraft operators, and air traffic services providers. He is also National Coordinator in the ICAO USAP Cycle II Audit. Prior to joining CAAV, he worked as for the Ministry of home Affairs as a Technical Assistant to the English Language for Government

Officials (ELGO 96) funded by AusAID. Mr. Hung holds a Bachelor of International Law degree from Ha Noi Law University and a Diploma in English for Academics from Melbourne Adult
Multicultural Education Services (AMES).
Kevin Kiefer – Chief, Office of Ports and Facility Activities, U.S. Coast Guard
Captain Kevin C. Kiefer is presently serving as Chief, Office of Port and Facility Activities (CG-544) at U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, DC. Responsible for the safety and security of domestic ports, specific focus areas of his office include enforcement of the Maritime
Transportation Security Act; implementation of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential; recovery of port capability; and strategy for the protection of dangerous cargoes, critical infrastructure, and high value assets. Captain Kiefer also recently served as Staff Director/Current
Plans in the National Incident Command for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response. Captain
Kiefer graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine
Engineering in 1989. He also holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering (Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering) and a Master of Engineering degree (Manufacturing) from the University of Michigan. After an initial tour aboard the Coast Guard Cutter VALIANT, a 210-foot medium endurance cutter homeported in Galveston, Texas, Captain Kiefer served in the Acquisitions Office at Coast Guard Headquarters as the configuration manager for three buoy tender replacement projects. He then transferred to Marine Safety Office Tampa, Florida where he worked as a marine inspector and was Chief of the Port State Control Section. He later returned to Coast Guard
Headquarters for a tour in the Marine Safety, Security and Environmental Protection Office where he worked in the Lifesaving and Fire Safety Standards Division and served as a delegate on the
International Maritime Organization’s Subcommittee on Fire Protection. Captain Kiefer next moved to Marine Safety Office Corpus Christi, Texas where he first served as Chief of the Port
Management Department and later as Executive Officer, during which time he served as the lead planner for the nation’s largest military outload operation in support of Operations Enduring
Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He later transitioned to Chief of the Prevention Department when the unit joined the nearby Group/Air Station and formed Sector Corpus Christi. He was next assigned as Commanding Officer of Marine Safety Unit Huntington, West Virginia where his area of responsibility included the Port of Huntington Tri-State, the largest inland and seventh largest port in the nation per annual tonnage.
C.H. Lee Klaus - Directorate General of Customs, Chinese Taipei
Mr. Klaus has over 14 years experience working in the customs sector, including his recent role working on international customs affairs. Previously, he has worked as AEO Supply Chain security
Specialist, bonded factory supervision, express cargo examination and valuation, and planning and assessing. He has also worked on passenger luggage screening as well as on receiving and reviewing export declarations. Mr. Klaus has a Master’s degree and is fluent in both English and
Mandarin.
Sean Moon – Chair, TPTWG Maritime Security Experts Group (MEG-SEC)
Sean Moon is a Senior Policy Advisor in the U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Transportation and Cargo Policy in Washington, D.C. Among other projects in his portfolio, he
Chairs the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Transportation Working Group Sub-Group for Maritime Security, heads recurring delegations to APEC and other multilateral organizations on trade recovery issues, and is the Policy lead for the DHS Small Vessel Security Strategy . A 1985 graduate of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, he spent four years in the private sector before joining the U.S. Coast Guard in 1989. Over the course of a 20-year career, he specialized in port operations and emergency management, conducting and supervising commercial and passenger vessel and facility safety and security programs, waterways management programs, and oil/hazardous materials and natural disaster response operations. His final Coast Guard tour was on detached duty as the Senior Policy Advisor for maritime issues to DHS Policy, a position that the Department has made permanent. Mr. Moon is the author and co-author of numerous papers and presentations, including: Effective Exchange of Information for Effective Risk
Management in Trade Recovery/Continuity (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Capacity Building
Workshop on Trade Recovery Program, Singapore, Singapore, 2008); “The Lost Chemical Spill:
Lessons Learned for Specialists” (Chemical Health & Safety, Jan./Feb. 2001); Emergency
Response Plans: What does the U.S. Coast Guard Expect?
(In: Technical Papers of the Seventh
Annual Environmental Management and Technology Conference/Central: HazMat Central,
Chicago, IL, 1994); and The M/V Santa Clara I Arsenic Trioxide Response – A Technical Review .
(In: Proceedings of the Tenth Technical Seminar on Chemical Spills, St. John, New Brunswick, CA,

1993).
Marta Moss - Manager, Customs Compliance-Post Entry, Levi Strauss & Co.,
A native of the state of Montana, Marta received her economics degree from the Wharton School of Business. Marta is in her sixth year with Levi Strauss & Co. There, she began by managing the company’s CBP focused assessment and setting up compliance measurement and reporting activities to compliment LS&Co.’s import processes and controls. Currently, the Levi Customs
Compliance team is exploring the needs, capabilities and risks of global affiliates and setting up global reporting and ways of working. Prior to joining Levis Strauss, Marta had a 20 year career in customs brokerage and international freight forwarding for major global forwarders, for niche service providers and operated her own customs brokerage company. Along the way, her duties ranged from Station General Manager, inbound freight and customs operations manager, compliance consultant and to global account manager. Her career began in Seattle when an employee failed to show up for work for a week. Marta was hired to sit at his desk and bring his customs entry work current —though the closest she had previously come to Customs was to know where the Customhouse was located. Through walking down to the Customhouse to ask her questions and by waiting for the company president ‘s attention, Marta developed her lasting interest in “the last mile” of international transportation.
John Neily – Director of National Security and Public Safety, Conference Board of Canada
John is the Director of National Security and Public Safety of the Public Policy Division of The
Conference Board of Canada, a position that he has held since October 2009. John retired as an
Assistant Commissioner of the RCMP in late 2008 after a successful career in public safety and security spanning close to 35 years. John had a successful consulting practice prior to joining the
Board. John has extensive experience in strategic policy development as it relates to national security and public safety at the local, provincial, federal and international levels. While in the
RCMP he held diverse operational leadership positions that have provided him an opportunity to work with other senior public safety officials and private sector executives in this specialized area of Canadian public safety. John’s team at the Conference Board has been extensively involved in cross border critical infrastructure resilience planning and strategic action planning for public and private agencies and organizations in three cross border regions of Canada and the United States.
His position at the Conference Board sees him responsible for the leadership of seven executive networks in the area of public safety, innovation, health and safety and knowledge management.
John is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness as well as the Founding Chair of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Emergency
Management Committee. He also holds a membership in the CACP’s Private Sector Liaison
Committee.
Brendan O’Hearn – Chair, Subcommittee on Customs Procedures (SCCP)
Mr. O’Hearn currently serves as the Director of Strategic Operation within the Office of
International Affairs. In this position he is responsible for U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s
(CBP) international policy development. Mr. O’Hearn directs CBP’s engagement in multilateral organizations (such as the World Customs Organization, APEC, the Caribbean Customs Law
Enforcement Council and the G8) and the negotiation of CBP’s international cooperation and information sharing instruments. He also oversees CBP’s International Visitors Program, which provides unique learning opportunities about CBP to almost 2,000 foreign government officials from over 100 countries each year. I n 2004 and 2005, Mr. O’Hearn led the CBP team that wrote and negotiated the WCO Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade.
Currently, he is the Chair of the APEC Sub Committee on Customs Procedures, which is actively pursuing the establishment of Authorized Economic Operator Programs, Trade Resumption
Protocols, Import Safety Operations and Single Window Development in the APEC region. Mr.
O’Hearn also serves as the WCO’s Finance Committee Vice Chair. Mr. O’Hearn started his career with the U.S. Customs Service as an Import Specialist at John F. Kennedy International Airport in
New York.
Patchara Pornyuthapong – Vice President, Aviation Security Standard and Quality Control
Department, Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited (AOT)
Mrs. Pornyuthapong held a Bachelor Degree of Arts from Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand and joined AOT since 1979. For her long period of working in security field, she had gained great experience in airport security and in 2007, she was appointed as Vice President of Airport Security
Department, Don Mueang International Airport, AOT.
In October 2009, AOT established a new office, Aviation Security Standard and Quality Control

Department and she was assigned as the first Vice President of this office. She takes into account the great effort to develop, improve and promote aviation security standard and quality control at 6
AOT international airports to international standards.
During 2004-2007, Mrs. Pornyuthapong also worked for ICAO as the ICAO Certified Auditor in the
ICAO Universal Security Audit Programme (USAP). She served ICAO as an ICAO team member for 2 audits at Incheon International Airport in 2004 and Kaula Lumpur International Airport in 2006.
Peter Robertson – Chair, TPTWG Aviation Security Experts Group (AEG-SEC)
General Manager, Aviation Security Branch, Australian Department of Infrastructure and Transport.
Peter joined the Commonwealth Public Service in 1979 after training initially in the RAAF as a pilot.
He has qualifications in public policy, legal studies, economics and accounting. He has worked primarily in policy and regulatory areas affecting the aviation, maritime, communications and land transport industries. Most recently his work has been focussed on the technical regulation of the vehicle industry, overseeing maritime regulation, road safety policy and establishing a national heavy vehicle regulatory authority. He took up his current position as head of the department’s
Aviation Security Branch in September 2009. His responsibilities in this position include policy support to the transport minister on aviation security matters, as well as being the Australian member of the Aviation Security Panel of ICAO. Peter also leads the Australian participation in the
APEC Transportation Working Group.
Adam Salerno – Senior Manager, National Security and Emergency Preparedness, U.S.
Chamber of Commerce
Adam W. Salerno is director for the National Security and Emergency Preparedness Department at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He is responsible for the Chamber’s initiatives regarding security, customs, transportation and trade issues related to the global supply chain. Salerno also oversees the Chamber’s Global Supply Chain Security Working Group. The group works with the administration, Congress, and the international community to strengthen businesses by eliminating barriers that hurt global commerce and slow the movement of goods in the domestic and global supply chain. Prior to joining the Chamber, Salerno was a business liaison in the Department of
Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Private Sector Office. There, he focused on policy related to travel and tourism, immigration, Customs and Border Protection, and the Transportation Security
Administration. He was both an advisor to DHS leadership and an advocate for the private sector inside of DHS. Salerno also oversaw the department’s activities pertaining to the Secure Border
Open Doors Advisory Council, as well as many other pro-business initiatives. Previously, Salerno spent four years working for Babson Capital Management LLC, a subsidiary of MassMutual
Financial Group, where he was an analyst to the trading desk and portfolio managers in the fixed income and equity markets. A native of Massachusetts, Salerno graduated from Western New
England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, with a double major in political science and economics. He earned his Masters of Business Administration from the University of
Massachusetts, Isenberg School of Management in Amherst, Massachusetts. Salerno lives in
Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife, Andrea.
Ken Sava – U.S. Customs and Border Protection
As the Director, Trusted Traveler Programs, Kenneth Sava is responsible for policy, development, and management of CBP’s Trusted Traveler Programs- Global Entry, SENTRI, and NEXUS. He is also responsible for the Model Ports and e-Badge Programs. Kenneth Sava was previously the
Director, Passenger Programs. In that capacity his responsibilities included the development and management of passenger processing policy and procedures in the air and sea environments, as well as the following CBP passenger initiatives: the Advance Passenger Information System, the
Immigration Advisory Program, the Carrier Liaison Program, the ENFORCE/IDENT system, and
Federal Inspection Facilities. Kenneth Sava started his career 24 years ago as an Inspector with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). During his INS career, he served in a variety of positions at the headquarters and field level including INS Liaison to the U.S. Customs Service,
Field Operations Officer, and Supervisory Immigration Inspector.
Norman Schenk – Vice President, Customs and Trade Compliance, United Parcel Service (UPS)
Norm Schenk, UPS vice president – customs & trade compliance, is responsible for directing global compliance, customs affairs, and training for UPS brokerage operations, which includes small package, ocean, air and road freight. With more than 25 years of UPS experience, Schenk has been involved with expansion planning, brokerage acquisitions, and systems development to ensure ongoing training for the ever-changing requirements to balance global trade with security for goods crossing borders. He was the first U.S. employee for the UPS small package brokerage

services in Louisville, Ky. which now has grown to more than 3,000 employees. UPS brokerage operations operate through 188 ports and air gateways in more than 34 countries. More than five million entries are processed annually with U.S. Customs and Border Protection alone. Schenk has testified before the U.S. Congress on both postal issues and drug enforcement issues. He is actively involved with the Express Association of America (EAA) and currently chairs the customs committee of the Global Express Association GEA). Norm is also involved with the American
Association of Exporters & Importers (AAEI) and National Customs Brokers & Forwarders
Association of America (NCBFFA). He was appointed to the Commercial Operations Advisory
Committee (COAC) in October 2002 and has served two terms on this advisory group to U.S.
Customs & Border Protection. Norm spends a great deal of time working directly with government agencies on reducing trade barriers, simplifying processes, and most recently supply chain security issues. He was a key contributor in the development of Air Cargo Advanced Screening (ACAS), now being used by CBP for global express air shipments. Schenk graduated from Widener
University in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration and is a licensed customs broker (1985). He resides in Louisville, Ky.
Mariko Silver – Acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of
Homeland Security
Mariko Silver is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Policy/Acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In this capacity Ms. Silver manages a departmentwide approach to DHS’ international engagement.
During her tenure at DHS, Ms. Silver has helped advance a global initiative to enhance aviation security and focuses on enhancing cooperation on Homeland Security partners in the Western
Hemisphere and Asia. Ms. Silver also created the first department-wide international strategy.
Prior to joining DHS, Ms. Silver served as Policy Advisor in the office of Arizona Governor Janet
Napolitano. Ms. Silver is the former Director of Strategic Projects for the Office of the President at
Arizona State University (the largest public university in the United States), where she was the first principal for the International Institute for University Design, a collaboration with the People’s
Republic of China which includes universities throughout China, Japan, Singapore, Australia,
Europe, and the United States. Ms. Silver has also served in the Office of the Executive Vice-
Provost of Columbia University, where she co-developed a multi-institution research response to
9/11, bringing members of the U.S. intelligence community together with academic experts in information analysis and management technologies. At Columbia she also helped establish the
International Innovation Initiative (I-3). Ms. Silver has worked in the Office of the Focal Point for
Women in the Office of Human Resources Management of the United Nations Secretariat and for
Quest Publications in Bangkok, Thailand. She holds a BA in history, with distinction, from Yale and an MSc, with distinction, in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Sussex Science
Policy Research Unit (UK).
Erroll Southers – Associate Director, National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of
Terrorism Events (CREATE), University of Southern California
Erroll G. Southers is a former Presidential nominee for Assistant Secretary of the TSA, Governor
Schwarzenegger's Deputy Director in the California Office of Homeland Security and FBI Special
Agent. He is the Associate Director of the National Homeland Security Center for Risk and
Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at the University of Southern California (USC) where he developed the Executive Program in Counter-Terrorism and serves as an Adjunct
Professor of Homeland Security and Public Policy. Southers is also the Managing Director of the
Counter-Terrorism and Infrastructure Protection Division of the international security consulting firm
TAL Global. He is the former Chief of Homeland Security and Intelligence for the Los Angeles
World Airports Police Department, the nation's largest. Southers began his law enforcement career with the Santa Monica Police Department, was appointed to the faculty and tactical staff of the Rio
Hondo Police Academy. In the FBI he investigated foreign counterintelligence and terrorism matters and served as a member of SWAT. He has testified as a subject matter expert before the full Congressional Committee on Homeland Security and lectures at the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Antiterrorism Seminars. Southers earned his BA degree at Brown University and MPA at USC, where he is recognized as a counter-terrorism expert. He is a Senior Fellow of the UCLA School of
Public Affairs and has lectured widely in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Israel, Hong
Kong and China, where he was invited to assess the security for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Arlene Turner – Lead Shepherd, Transportation Working Group (TPTWG)
Ms. Arlene Turner became Director General, International Relations and Gateway Initiatives,

Transport Canada, in July 2011. She is also the Lead Shepherd of the APEC Transportation
Working Group. Ms. Turner has varied experience in areas such as international relations, negotiations and issues management; economic policy issues in domestic and international contexts; federal-provincial and federal-private sector relations and negotiations; Aboriginal issues, including policing, justice and self-government; and directing national strategic policy and research initiatives. Over her career, she has worked at the Department of National Revenue, Customs and
Excise (now the Canada Border Services Agency), the Customs Co-operation Council (now the
World Customs Organization), the Department of Finance, and Solicitor General Canada (now
Public Safety Canada).
Henry Ward - Global Supply Chain Director, The Dow Chemical Company
Henry Ward leads The Dow Chemical Company’s global programs for supply chain sustainability, security and public policy advocacy. As Global Supply Chain Director, Henry is responsible for driving and overseeing the strategies and programs that ensure Dow’s supply chain operations reflect the proper balance between economic, environmental and social considerations. He led the development and implementation of Dow’s Global Supply Chain Security Plan – with an emphasis on chemical transportation security threat and vulnerability assessments and risk mitigation. In the public policy arena, Henry is focused on driving improvements in freight transportation infrastructure and the safe and secure transportation of hazardous materials, worldwide. Henry’s
36 years of experience in the chemical industry has included leadership roles in manufacturing, global supply chain operations and a wide range of environmental, health, safety and chemical security risk management disciplines. He joined Dow in Midland, Michigan in February 2001, following 16 years with Union Carbide Corporation and 10 years with Stauffer Chemical Company.
Henry earned his Bachelors degree from the Johns Hopkins University and Masters degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
Ryo Watanabe – Director for Transport Safety and Security Policy, Minister's Secretariat
Bureau,
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Japan
He was born in 1961. After graduating from the Department of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Transport in 1984. He has taken posts in wide range of transportation related fields such as civil aviation, railway, ports and harbours, etc. He served as First Secretary of
Japanese Embassy in Australia in the mid-90s. Within Civil Aviation Bureau, he formerly worked for Aviation Industries Division, and served as Director for Supervision of Kansai International
Airport and Chubu International Airport from 2005 to 2007. He also experienced the Director for
Aviation Safety and Security Promotion Division in Civil Aviation Bureau as the representative in charge of the policy for Aviation Safety and Security as well as Crisis Management between July
2009 and Jun 2011 in his previous position. In this period, he organized “the Asia-Pacific
Ministerial Conference on Aviation Security” on 13th of March in 2010 and also took the responsibility to respond to the Great East Japan Earthquake as a risk and contingency manager of Civil Aviation Bureau. In the present position, he is in charge of the policy of safety and security of all modes of transport in MLIT.
Anne Witkowsky - Deputy Coordinator for Homeland Security and Multilateral Affairs, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State
Ms. Witkowsky was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
(CSIS) from 2000-2007 and a CSIS Senior Associate (non-resident) from 2007-2009. At CSIS, she led and contributed to major projects, on governance broadly, as well as on homeland security specifically. Under the guidance of a high level commission, she directed the CSIS
Embassy of the Future study, which examined ways to enhance the effectiveness of the U.S. overseas diplomatic presence; served on two of the CSIS Beyond Goldwater-Nichols studies, including a study on enhancing government unity of effort for homeland security; and directed the CSIS “Steadfast Resolve” simulation of decision making at the cabinet level in the event of the next domestic terrorist attack. She also co-directed aviation management and security research. She was the executive director of the CSIS Commission on Science and Security
(established by the Secretary of Energy), which examined how to maintain excellence in science and ensure sound security at the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories. From
1993-2000, Ms. Witkowsky served as a Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the
National Security Council (NSC) staff. As a member of the NSC staff, her primary areas of responsibility were European security and conventional arms control treaty negotiations and implementation. Prior to taking her position on the NSC staff, Ms. Witkowsky served from

1988-2002 in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, in the Office of Russian, Ukraine, and Eurasian Affairs and in the Office of European Security Negotiations.
She began her career in the federal government as a Presidential Management Intern (PMI).
She received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service in 2000. Her publications include: The Embassy of the Future (project director), Beyond Goldwater Nichols-
Managing the Next Domestic Catastrophe: Ready (or Not)? (contributor); Beyond Goldwater
Nichols Phase II Report- U.S. Government and Defense Reform for a New Strategic Era
(contributor); and Science and Security in the 21st Century (project director). Ms. Witkowsky is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She holds a B.A. in Russian and East
European studies from Yale University. She received her M.P.A., with a concentration in international security, from Harvard Univers ity’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.