Dr Anoop Swarup, the Vice Chancellor of Shobhit University, joined Indian Revenue Service in the year 1985. He holds a Doctorate in Science and distinguished University Gold Medals for his Master of Science and Master of Philosophy and has been invited to several international conferences and has been 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. Dr Swarup 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.

Dr Swarup has been a recipient of the Presidential Award of Republic of India in 2003. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to the United States in 2005, won commendations from UN Resident Representative India for outstanding work in Orissa super-cyclone, 1999 and Gujarat earthquake of 2000 and was awarded UN-ESCAP Hon'ble Mention on HRD for Youth Empowerment (2000), he has been a recipient of the prestigious National Science Talent Scholarship in 1975, the CSIR fellowship in 1981, National Gandhi fellowship in 2001 and was nominated for biographical inclusion in the Tenth Edition of International Directory of Distinguished Leadership of the American Biographical Institute, Inc., USA, 2001.

Dr Swarup has varied and extensive experience of over 27 years at key positions in public, private and not for profit sectors. He was the Commissioner of Customs for Rajasthan at Jaipur, holding the additional charge of Commissioner (Preventive), New Delhi. He was appointed by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon as UN Finance Expert for implementation of UN Security Council Resolution. In the past he has been the Executive Director of NYKS, the largest Youth Organisation of its kind in the world and the Managing Director of the National Youth Cooperative Bank that he helped setting up. He served as a Commissioner (Appeals), 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.

Dr Swarup has been a visiting professor and a teaching faculty being intimately involved in curriculum development and training for over 27 years with various educational institutions and Universities that include Monash University, Melbourne, Faculty of Business and Economics (2006 to date), Swinburne University (2001 to 2003), National Institute of Financial Management, Faridabad (1996 to 2005), Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradoon (1995 to 1996), National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics, New Delhi (1996 to 2005), Barkatullah University, Bhopal (1991 to 1994) and Vikram University Ujjain (1981 to 1984).

Dr Swarup has authored a book on 'The World of Money Laundering, Financial Crimes and Commercial Frauds' 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 initiated capacity building programmes at the National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics (NACEN) so as to build organisational competencies in close association with the World Customs Organisation. 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. Dr Swarup 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.

He 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 organisations and a host of other private and public sector institutions. He 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 also the various national Customs and Police Administrations across the globe 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.

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