Mette Werdelin Azzam

Ms Mette Werdelin Azzam is an independent Customs and Trade Agreement Specialist with rules of origin as her main expertise and passion.

She has previously worked 10 years as Senior Technical Officer in the World Customs Organization (WCO) in Brussels, Belgium, as Head of Origin Sub-Directorate in the Tariff and Trade Affairs Directorate.

Ms Azzam holds a Higher Technical Certificate in international business (BTS de commerce international) from a business school in Paris, France. She graduated from the Danish Customs and Tax College in 2000 and has been working in the Danish Customs Administration until February 2008 where she was posted in Brussels as Danish Customs Attaché. From December 2005 to January 2008 Ms Azzam was responsible for origin matters at the Customs Headquarter in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Ms Azzam has an extensive theoretical and practical knowledge of rules of origin legislation, both in the preferential and the non-preferential areas.

Ms Azzam has more than 10 years of training experience within the fields of customs legislation and customs procedures. As Head of the WCO Origin Sub-Directorate she was responsible for Capacity Building and Technical Assistance activities mainly for developing countries in the area of origin legislation. She has conducted more than 50 capacity-building missions, including diagnostic assessments, advisory assistance, consulting and training workshops on rules of origin worldwide.