As a result of the retirement of David Stroud as BIFA’s policy and compliance adviser – Air, the trade association is reorganising its policy and compliance team.

David’s role is becoming the responsibility of Pawel Jarza, who is well known to many BIFA members as a result of his work in the Customs environment as frontier policy manager.

A graduate of the university of Wroclaw with a masters degree in International Trade Relations, Jarza has over 20 years of experience in the logistics industry, mainly in Customs compliance-focused managerial roles.

Igor Popovics, is taking on full responsibility for Customs and frontier issues, as policy and compliance adviser – Customs.

He joined BIFA in 2022 from the London Chamber of Commerce, where he was export documents and customs declaration officer, and whilst primarily fulfilling a Customs role, he also has wide knowledge of Rules of Origin and Carnets.

Meanwhile, BIFA’s policy and compliance team has been strengthened by the promotion of Jamie McKean to policy adviser – Sustainable Logistics.

Jamie is a law graduate from the University of Reading and joined BIFA in 2023 as a management trainee. He will work closely with Mike Jones, policy & compliance adviser – sustainability & environment.

In 2023, BIFA established a policy group to help identify and report to the Association and its Members on environmental-related issues which may in the future have an impact upon their businesses, or are already doing so.

Jamie’s promotion demonstrates the significance of this Sustainable Logistics policy group and the ever-increasing importance of the issues it addresses to the work of BIFA members.

They are at different stages of their journey in regards to the development of policy that addresses environmental and sustainability issues within the supply chains that they manage, and many are looking to BIFA for guidance and advice.