Title
Commissioner IT
Company
Central Board of Excise & Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, CBEC
Bio

Mr. Sahu’s primary responsibility in Indian Customs is to coordinate the activities in connection with the Single Window implementation in India. As part of executive and policy support to the Central Board of Excise & Customs, he works on all major strategic initiatives of Customs in India.

 

Previously, Mr. Sahu served with the World Customs Organization as acting Deputy Director and Senior Technical Officer in the Area of Facilitation & Compliance. He is a lead resource on several WCO instruments such as the WCO Data Model, the Compendium on “How to Build a Single Window Environment”, the Unique Consignment Reference (UCR), Guidelines on Information and Communications Technology for the Revised Kyoto Convention and Advance Passenger Information(API) and Passenger Name Record(PNR) data transmission to governments. He has worked for several national and international initiatives concerning trade facilitation and Customs automation and has advised governments on issues concerning Single Window, Coordinated Border Management and information management issues. He speaks and writes frequently on these matters at various national and international events.

 

Earlier in his carrier with the Indian Customs administration, he has served in Customs clearance operations and enforcement positions. Thereafter, for nearly 10 years, he worked as executive on projects Customs automaton, EDI and Risk Management System with Indian Customs. He has received separate master’s degrees in Computer Sciences and Business Administration.