Dietmar Jost
Leading Customs and Trade Facilitation Expert
Dietmar Jost is a former German Customs officer and Senior Technical Officer of the World Customs Organization with over 35 years of international managerial and consulting experience in the Customs, trade facilitation and transportation domains.
Dietmar gained special competences and project management experiences in Customs modernization and capacity building programs with focus on Customs risk management, Authorized Economic Operator programs, coordinated border management and modern and digitalized Customs procedures such as pre-arrival processing, expedited shipments and single window.
Experience
Owner, Dietmar Jost Consulting (2010-today)
Owner and sole proprietor of Dietmar Jost Consulting providing consultancy to governments and businesses in all questions relating to international Customs, trade facilitation and cross-border trade and transport.
Senior Associate, Booz&Co (now Strategy&)(2007-2010)
Senior Associate in the Global Security and Public Sector practice focussing on consultancy to governments and businesses in all questions relating to security and efficiency in international Customs and cross-border trade and transport.
Senior Officer, Ministry of Finance (1991-1995, 2005-2007)
Senior officer in charge of international Customs cooperation, development of standard Customs messages for electronic data interchange based on international standards such as UN/EDIFACT and ebXML and Customs questions in relation to transit, rail, maritime and civil aviation issues.
Senior Technical Officer, World Customs Organization, Brussels (1995-2005)
Senior Technical Officer with overall responsibility for WCO policies and strategies in the area of Customs automation, business process analysis and single window, Customs procedures, risk management and trade facilitation. Member of the editing team for the Revised Kyoto Convention and the SAFE Framework of Standards and architect of the WCO Data Model versions 1 and 2.
Education
LL.B. Finance and Customs Administration (Diplom-Finanzwirt )
Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences Münster, Germany
Earned a solid foundation in Customs and public law as well as practical insights into the entire spectrum of Customs work ranging from border clearance, audit and back-office work to law enforcement.
Diploma in systems analysis and design
German National Research Centre for Information Technology (GMD, now Fraunhofer Institute), Sankt Augustin
Completed an intensive programming and systems analysis certification program focused on the then latest trends and strategies in the digital landscape. Acquired expertise in system design, business process reengineering and critical path methods.
