Senior Counselors

Audrey Adams
Senior Counselor

Audrey Adams, senior counselor, ASERO Worldwide, is an experienced border management, border security and supply chain security consultant and a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) senior executive.

Ms. Adams retired from U.S. Customs and Border Protection in 2007, after a 35 year career.

During her career, she held a variety of key leadership positions including chief operating officer, Office of Field Operations at CBP headquarters in Washington, DC, director field operations, Los Angeles and Long Beach and District Director, Laredo, Texas. In these positions she managed large field locations with well over a thousand, primarily armed, officers responsible for cargo and passengers arriving and departing by land, air and sea.

Immediately prior to her retirement, she served as the deputy assistant commissioner, Office of International Affairs with oversight responsibility for all international activity within CBP, including the management of over 300 officers serving at 54 posts overseas pursuant to the Container Security Initiative (CSI) and other international security initiatives as well as a US based staff of approximately 150. In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, she was selected as the customs attachי in Brussels, Belgium, representing CBP to the European Union and the World Customs Organization (WCO) to drive US government initiatives to secure and facilitate global trade and implement programs such as CSI and the use of air Passenger Name Record (PNR) data to improve security in the air environment

As a consultant, she has provided extensive technical assistance to the governments of Israel and the Palestinian Authority as they work to resolve their difficult border security and border management issues. She has worked extensively with the Palestinian private sector to integrate the principles of supply chain security into their operations and reduce their risk of being infiltrated by terrorists or others who would seek to harm their businesses.

Assisting a number of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) projects, she advocates integration of modern border management practices such as risk management, low risk trader programs, utilization of advance information and implementation of the principles of supply chain security into daily operations. This involves extensive work with private sector commercial entities as well as foreign governments.