Title
Technical Officer
Company
World Customs Organization (WCO)
Bio

Milena Budimirović works as a Technical Officer, Compliance and Facilitation, in the Procedures and Facilitation Sub-Directorate of the World Customs Organization (WCO).

Her responsibilities include work related to the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation (ATF), including managing the WCO Working Group on the WTO ATF and dealing with WCO Trade Facilitation instruments and tools. She also manages the Permanent Technical Committee, the WCO IT Conference agenda and is responsible for postal traffic matters including cooperation with the Universal Postal Union.

Before joining the WCO Secretariat in May 2012, Ms. Budimirovic served as Brussels-based Customs Attaché of Serbia for three years, during which she worked closely with the European Commission and the WCO covering all areas of customs business. In 2011 she was accredited by WCO as national Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) technical and operational advisor.

Prior to moving to Brussels, she served for ten years in the Customs Administration of Serbia. Her first years in service she spent working as Customs Inspector at different border posts, after which she moved to the International Affairs Department in the Headquarters. She managed the WCO SAFE Implementation Project and was involved in many modernization projects with the WCO and the European Union (EU).