Ephyro Luis B. Amatong was appointed a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2014, and is currently the supervising commissioner for the Markets and Securities Regulation Department and the Economic Research and Training Department.

Before joining the SEC, Mr. Amatong was an Assistant Secretary of the Department of Finance (DOF) where he had an active role in the privatization of 74 hectares of the Food Terminal, Inc. (P24 billion). He was also involved in a number of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects such as the PPP for School Infrastructure Project Phase I (US$397 million), the NAIA Expressway Project (US$345 million), and the Automated Fare Collection System (US$38 million).

He also served in various capacities in the government, namely as Vice President of the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (2012-2013), Corporate Staff Officer of the National Power Corporation (2010-2012), Acting Chairman of the Local Water Utilities Administration (2011), Corporate Legal Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary of PNOC Exploration Corporation (2008-2010), Adviser to Amb. Hilario G. Davide, Jr. of the Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the United Nations (2007-2008), and Senior Law Clerk to then Justice Conchita Carpio Morales of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (2003-2005).

Mr. Friebel holds both (electrical) engineering and business degrees and has an expansive management and leadership background in sales, marketing, research and development. In more than 35 years, he successfully managed companies and business units with clear economic focus. He held senior and executive positions in large technology companies (Infineon, Siemens, NEC, Nokia, Fraunhofer) and as Senior Director/Fellow of Nokia he established corporate research activities in Germany, Japan, China, Russia, India and Hungary.

Dirk has built profit and non-profit organizations and founded eight start-up companies. Since 2005, he has been Senior Expert/ Assessor of European grant funding projects and has been supporting the European Joint Undertaking ECSEL. He was also President of the Society of Microelectronics, Microsystems and Precision Engineering (VDE/VDI GMM) and member of the VDE’s executive committee and the VDI scientific council.

Dirk has experience in international commercial consulting activities and strong links to important technology and scientific associations and institutes around the world.

Dr. Michael Has studied physics at the University of Regensburg after two vocational trainings. There he received his doctorate in the field of Biophysics. He headed innovation research at the Fogra Institute in Munich. In 1996, he joined the École Française de Papeterie et des industries Graphiques (EFPG, an institute within Grenoble INP). In 1998, he was habilitated by the University of Grenoble, where he has since taught as Distinguished Professor in the areas of business strategy as well as sustainability. After graduating in physics, Has also attended INSEAD Business School in Fontainebleau.

Has held senior positions in research and development as well as global portfolio planning, portfolio management and marketing after joining Océ. Stimulated by a long stay with Indians in Canada, Has was and is active in the field of human rights of minorities (for example, he was for many years a board member of the Society for Threatened Peoples, and the World Uranium Hearing). Since its founding, he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Vielfalt der Kulturen, Göttingen, and since 2020 its Chairman. He dealt with the topic of tourism impacts as well as with questions of resource conservation and the consequences of excessive resource extraction.

In conjunction with his professional activities in the printing industry, these areas of interest led him to work and research in the fields of sustainability and circular economy (e.g. World Economic Forum, work on Circular Economy 2016). A particular research focus for Has is the development of a flexible and customizable tool for determining and evaluating the ecological footprint of industrial companies and the resulting consequences for politics, the environment and society.

Diana is currently an Associate Director in SGV & Co’s Climate change and sustainability service team. She has almost 9 years of experience on environment and sustainability related projects specifically on circular economy, life cycle analysis, sustainable consumption and production, sustainable tourism and sustainable forest management.

She also took her post graduate degree on Biodiversity and Conservation of Natural Resources in Malaysia where she also became part of team who conducted scientific researches on the impacts of sustainable palm oil, and the conflicts on human-wildlife interaction in one of Malaysia’s recreational parks.

She has participated in various consultative and roundtable meetings relating to low carbon economy, environment and natural resources, sustainability policies and strategies. She also worked with a non profit organization on a project on sustainable consumption and production where she was part of the team who conducted Life Cycle Analysis for the Food Service Industry.

Currently, as one of the managers in CCaSS team, she provides sustainability advisory to clients specifically on the development of sustainability reporting strategies and conduct of sustainability assurance readiness and non-financial assurance.