Etiyel Chibira has over 18 years’ experience on cross-border road transport policy and regulation, regional transport systems and trade facilitation. He serves on many technical committees and working groups focusing on transport and trade facilitation in Southern Africa. Etiyel’s research has focused on corridor performance, regional transport systems, challenges affecting cross-border road transport, road safety and trade facilitation in Southern Africa. His qualifications include a BSc Honours Degree in transport studies from the University of Zimbabwe and an MSc in Project Management. Etiyel has worked in both government and private sectors and has deep understanding of the regional transport environment. He is currently working for the Cross-Border Road Transport Agency.

Innocent Muranganwa is a holder of an MSc Degree in Fiscal Studies (N.U.S.T, Zimbabwe) and has more than 26 years of experience in Customs and Excise Management. He has been involved in Customs Border Control and Management, Customs Modernisation and Trade Facilitation. His research interests are in Trade Facilitation.

Aleksa Burmazovic is the project manager with Adrianople Group, a business intelligence and consulting firm focused on Special Economic Zones. Based in Serbia, he travels and works regularly in Sub-saharan Africa, and has a particular focus on Central African States’ investment attraction policies. In addition to hosting the Geoeconomics Podcast, he also issues daily book reviews on intelligence, geographic, and economic subjects. https://www.adrianoplegroup.com/

Lead on Trade Policy, UKAid Policy Development Facility in Nigeria

Trudi Hartzenberg is the Executive Director of tralac. She has a special interest in trade-related capacity building. Her research areas include trade policy issues, regional integration, investment, industrial and competition policy.

Dirk de Vos runs a corporate finance and advisory firm which specialises in due diligence, valuations and transaction support. Dirk has a special interest in regulatory systems – industry specific regulation and international trade.

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Paul Esselaar holds a Masters in Electronic Law (LLM) from the University of Cape Town and is a practising attorney at his own firm and co-author of A guide to the Protection of Personal Information Act. His interests are in consumer law including credit law, data protection, consumer protection as well as electronic law as it affects intellectual property, cybercrime and telecommunications.

Wilfried Deudjui Mbouwé is a software engineer with extensive experience in building web applications and software components especially related to cross-border trade and logistics. Working at Cameroon National Shippers Council, he has been involved in trade facilitation and has worked as research officer in charge of information systems for 3 years at the National Trade Facilitation Committee. A tralac alumnus, he is passionate about Africa’s economic growth and development and applies its IT skills to achieve that goal.

George Chikondi Lwanda is a regional programme and policy advisor with the UNDP Africa Centre, a 2018 Asia Global Fellow at the Asia Global Institute at the Hong Kong University, and an alum of the Mo-Ibrahim SOAS Summer School on governance and development in Africa. George is also a tralac alumnus.

Rwatida Mafurutu is an experienced career expert in the areas of Customs and Excise border management, administration, trade facilitation and cross-border trade. He has a fervent research interest in cross-border migration, Customs risk management, regional integration and trade policy issues in Africa. Rwatida is a holder of Master of Commerce Specializing in Management Practice in the Field of Trade Law and Policy (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Master of Philosophy in Taxation (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and a Master of Science in Fiscal Studies (National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe).

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