Title
Deputy Director Compliance and Facilitation
Company
World Customs Organization
Bio

Ms. Heike Barczyk currently serves as the Deputy Director Compliance and Facilitation at the Secretariat of the World Customs Organization (WCO) in Brussels. She switched to this new position in October 2014 after having served as Deputy Director Capacity Building at the WCO for 4 ½ years.

Before joining the WCO Secretariat in April 2010, she held several managerial positions in the German Customs Administrations, the last of which Deputy Director International Customs Affairs in the Ministry of Finance.

Ms. Barczyk studied Public Administrations, more specifically External Relations, at a German federal academy of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and holds a related degree. She then studied law at the University of Cologne. Before joining Customs, she worked for a few years as a Lawyer on international trade and labour law.