Speakers ⇽ EU-Philippines Business Summit 2018

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H.E. Franz Jessen

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Head of the Delegation at Delegation of the European Union to the Philippines

The EU and the Philippines Through the Years

Cong. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

House Speaker at House of Representatives (Video Message)

Dr. Ernesto Pernia

Secretary at National Economic and Development Authority

Keynote Speech: Philippine Roadmap Towards Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth

Dr. Ernesto M. Pernia is the Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning, National Economic and Development Authority, Philippines. He is also
Professor Emeritus of Economics, having served as Professor and Chairman, Department of Economics at the University of the Philippines.

Dr. Pernia was Lead Economist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). His work experience covered investment climate and productivity, economic growth and poverty reduction, education and health, human resource development, and regional economic cooperation in Asia. He also served as Regional Adviser on population and employment policy for Asia and the Pacific with the International Labour Organization.

He served as chair of the board of trustees of the University of San Carlos (2011-2014), and as a director on the board of the Philippine-American Academy of Science and Engineering (2008-2013). He is also on the boards of a number of NGOs involved in education and health concerns, population and development, and care of street children.

He obtained his PhD degree from the University of California Berkeley on a Ford Foundation scholarship and a Smithsonian Institution dissertation grant. He received the first award as Outstanding Young Scientist (economics and social sciences) from the National Academy of Science and Technology. He was chosen by the Philippine-American Academy of Science and Engineering for the 2015 Science Lectureship Award. He was a former President of the Philippine Economic Society and Co-Chair of the Federation of ASEAN Economic Associations (1988).