Among other things, the Secretariat is responsible for providing administrative support to the Management Committee, coordinating the activities of INCU members and affiliates, organising events, and liaising with the WCO and other stakeholders.
The INCU Secretariat is located in Canberra, Australia, in the heart of Australia’s political scene, approximately 500 metres from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 700 metres from the Australian Parliament House and just over 1 km from the Australian Prime Minister’s residence.
Our Team
Ms Silvia Vosa
Head of Secretariat
Ms Silvia Vosa is a Head of the INCU Secretariat and Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Customs and Excise Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia. She has a background in law and customs administration having previously worked within the Legal Division of the Fiji Revenue and Customs Services for nearly ten years before moving to the Australia and joining the public service operations within the ACT Government. Silvia is looking forward to new challenges and opportunities in international customs education space in her role as Deputy Head of INCU Secretariat.
Mr Jia-Yuan Yao
MEDIA OPERATIONS MANAGER
Mr Jia-Yuan Yao is a media and communication specialist. Yao worked at the Mail Inspection Section in China Customs and is in charge of media and public relations work in his section. From 2012 to 2016, Yao studied Customs Management at Shanghai Customs College and he has been working at the INCU Secretariat since 2015. In 2024, Yao obtained his master’s degree in political communication at University of Gothenburg.
In late 2017, Yao proposed the initiative to establish INCU Media Studio with the aim of promoting the INCU and its activities and improving the organisation’s communications and delivery of services and products to its membership base.
Mr Christoph Stemann
Membership Affairs Officer
Mr Christoph Stemann has studied law at the University of Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. As a scholarship holder of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation he has passed the First State Exam as well as the Foreign Law and Language Programme in “International Law”. Mr. Stemann is a doctoral candidate at the Viadrina Compliance Center at the Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, and doing research on compliance with sustainability rules in foreign trade law. He is currently a lecturer on EU Law at the Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland and works as Senior Researcher at the Institute of Customs and International Trade Law (ICTL) and as Research Assistant at the AWB Tax/Law/Consulting Firm in Münster, Germany.
In order to support the INCU Mr Stemann acts as Membership Affairs Officer of the Secretariat. He especially engages in the administration of membership applications and keeps in touch with applicants to conduct a successful admission to the network.
In case you experience difficulties with your membership feel free to contact Mr Stemann under christoph.stemann@incu.org.