Crown Agents' Team Leader, John Brown, delivered a lecture before the students from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. He spoke about Crown Agents' best practices in design and delivery of public financial management programmes in Bulgaria and throughout the world.

The students attending the lecture learned more about the work Crown Agents has been doing in Bulgaria for the past 7 years – the Customs Reform Programme (2002-2004), the Customs Modernisation Programme (2004-2006), Phase I and Phase II of the current Programme for Moderniastion of the Bulgarian Financial Administration.

John Brown also shared with the students some interesting moments from his practice.  He is a United Kingdom national with 30 year’s experience working for Her Majesty’s Customs & Excise as a senior manager and auditor. He has worked in a wide range of operational and policy areas, including anti smuggling, excise, warehousing, value added tax control, personnel and training. He also has experience of customs procedures and standards at the European Union level as well as wider justice and law enforcement issues at the national and international level. John has extensive experience in the management of large-scale international customs projects in Europe and elsewhere.