Anoop Swarup

Professor (Dr) Anoop Swarup (born January 10,1959) is presently Vice Chancellor of Shobhit University. Has varied and extensive experience of over 30 years at key positions in public, private and not for profit sectors. Recipient of the 'Presidential Award of Republic of India'in 2003 and several other recognition for his outstanding contributions to the society.

Prof Anoop Swarup holds a Doctorate in Science and distinguished University Gold Medals for his Master of Science and Master of Philosophy and also has to his credit a Master of Science in Defence & Strategic Studies from DSSC Wellington and an MBA (Finance & Strategy) from the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship.

He is the founder Global Knowledge Alliance (GKA) and Patron,Melbourne School of Knowledge Management Knowledge Managementmelbournesky.com; has been one of the inspirers behind Himsa Mukt Bharat Andolan ( a movement for nonviolence and against all conflicts); founded the Sambhav Nasha Mukti Abhiyan (a voluntary coalition for a drug free society and deaddiction campaigns).

Was appointed by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon as UN Finance Expert for implementation of UN Security Council Resolution. · Had been the Executive Director of NYKS, the largest Youth Organization of its kind in the world and the Managing Director of the National Youth Cooperative Bank that he helped setting up.

Speaker to several international conferences and a resource person with the Linnaean Society, London, the British Natural History Museum, London, the World Intellectual Property Organization, Washington DC, the United Nations Environment Program, Trieste (Italy) and the World Wide Fund for Nature, New Delhi.

Has been a Fulbright Visitor to the United States in 2005, won commendations from UN Resident Representative India for outstanding work in Orissa supercyclone, 1999 and Gujarat earthquake of 2000 and was awarded UNESCAP Honorable Mention on HRD for Youth Empowerment (2000)while working as the Executive Director of NYKS, one of the largest Youth Organisation in the World.Has been a recipient of the prestigious National Science Talent Scholarship in 1975, the CSIR fellowship in 1981, National Gandhi fellowship in 2001.

Has authored books on 'The World of Money Laundering, Financial Crimes and Commercial Frauds' and 'Regional Economic Engagements and Free Trade Agreements" apart from delivering several lectures on the subject in universities and other national and international forums. Some of his initiatives include accreditation of National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics at Faridabad as the WCO Asia Pacific Training Centre, setting up of National Customs Museum at Goa, election of India as the WCO Asia Pacific Vice Chair.

He has held various positions such as the Commissioner of Customs for Rajasthan, Commissioner (Preventive), New Delhi and Commissioner (Appeals) Daman, Vapi and Surat, and an UN Finance Expert. Also served as Executive Director NYKS, Director (Anti smuggling) and Director (International Customs) with Government of India in the federal Ministry of Finance and as The Secretary General of 'National Think Tank' on Indirect Taxes.

His experience and expertise are in Financial Investigations, Anti money Laundering Strategies and Techniques, Project Formulation, Management, Evaluation and Monitoring, Financial Risk Management, Change Management, Voluntarism and Entrepreneurship, Cooperatives & Community Programs; Small and Medium Enterprises Planning, Expansion & Growth, Global Markets and Trade Regimes, Free Trade Agreements & Rules of Origin, Export/ Import Policies, Strategies, Negotiations and International Law, Performance Audit, Corporate Social Responsibility, & Investigative Techniques, Business Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Tax Administration policies and practice, Trade Facilitation, Security & Compliance, Environmental Economics and Resource Management, Capacity Building, Training, Curriculum Development, Design and Delivery.

Has been a visiting professor and a teaching faculty being intimately involved in curriculum development and training for over 27 years with various institutions and Universities that include Monash University, Melbourne, Faculty of Business and Economics (2006 to 2007), Swinburne University (200103), National Institute of Financial Management, Faridabad (19962005), Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradoon (199596), National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics, New Delhi (19962005), Barkatullah University, Bhopal (199194) and Vikram University Ujjain (198184).

Initiated capacity building programmes at the National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics (NACEN) so as to build organizational competencies in close association with the World Customs Organization.

Apart from being a UNEP Certified Trainer he has delivered key lectures at National Academies of Customs Excise and Narcotics, the National Institute of Financial Management and other institutions.

Has to his credit several publications in Indian and International journals and has the rare distinction of combining his science background with postgraduate degrees in Banking, Finance and Risk Management. At the international policy level also Dr Swarup has been responsible not only as a national contact point for linkages but also contributed to treaties, pacts and exchanges through country representation such as in the US Container Security Initiative, FATFs Forty Recommendations on Money laundering and the special Nine Recommendations on Terrorist Financing, WCOs Kyoto Protocol, Bilateral Customs Cooperation Agreements with the EU, USA, UK, France, Russia, China, SAARC, Australia and many other countries and the Free Trade Agreements with ASEAN, Thailand, Singapore, SAFTA, MERCOSUR (South American Countries), China and other countries.

Was invited to the United States as a visitor on money laundering and terrorist financing in 2005 where he had the unique opportunity to have extensive discussions with the FATF, FINCEN, US Treasury, Federal Reserve, the federal and district attorneys, the Citibank Group and other banking and finance organizations and a host of other private and public sector institutions.

Has professional expertise as well as core competency in investigation of financial crimes, money laundering, anti smuggling and commercial frauds. He established online and real time linkages between various trans national and international agencies such as the UNODC, FATF, INCB, DEA, INTERPOL, WCO, WTO, WIPO and alsMedia:Example.oggo the various national Customs and Police Administrations across the glolink titlebe and national agencies such as the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (responsible for financial fraud and money laundering investigations and enforcement of customs and tax offence in India), Central Bureau of Investigation (responsible for federal police compliance, investigation and enforcement), Enforcement Directorate (responsible for foreign exchange regulation and management acts), Financial Investigations Unit, Central Board of Excise and Customs, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Central Economic Intelligence Bureau, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB – responsible for federal drug trafficking and enforcement apparatus) as also other central intelligence agencies and state intelligence and enforcement agencies. link title