Bob’s background in exporting and importing stretches over more than 50 years, initially in international banking then in the world of international commerce.

In 1989 he started his own business as an independent consultant and educator assisting exporters and importers in the “back office” side of their businesses. In all, he has directly controlled and coordinated many tens of thousands of shipments of a very wide variety of products coming and going all round the world.

Bob now has the honour of being the first Australian and only the second non-lawyer to be invited by the ICC to be a member of their Incoterms Drafting Group to draft the new Incoterms 2020. This was as a result of his being a member of the ICC’s committee which drafted the new publication “ICC Guide to Transport and the Incoterms 2010 Rules”. He was previously a member of ICC Australia’s Incoterms Committee contributing to the drafting of Incoterms 2010 and was then Australia’s representative to the three days of Incoterms 2010 Release Conference and Masterclass workshop in Paris October 2010. In May 2015 he gave a presentation on Incoterms 2010 to the ICC’s first-ever conference in Yangon, Myanmar, and in October 2015 was invited to give a similar presentation to ICC Hong Kong. He is an active member of the International Chamber of Commerce (Australia)’s Banking Technique & Practices Committee and was involved in their contributing to the writing of the current L/C regulations (UCP600) and the current International Standard Banking Practice (ISBP745).