Joey was appointed as Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship by President Rodrigo Duterte to help in MSME development. He is also the Chairman of the ASEAN Business Advisory Council in 2017 Philippine Chairmanship of ASEAN.

Joey is the founder of the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship – Go Negosyo. It aims to alleviate poverty by empowering entrepreneurs and eventually transform the country into an enterprising nation.

Joey was also one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM) in 1995, recognized in the Time Global 100 List of Young Leaders of the Millennium and was also hailed by Forbes Asia as one of the 48 Heroes of Philanthropy this 2011. He was also awarded by the Republic of India with the Padma Shri Award last April 2018.

In the advent of COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippine business sector, led by Joey as the Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship, conceived Project ARK that pushes for COVID-19 testing innovations. Its mission is to make massive testing accessible and affordable in the workplace and in communities to save jobs, lives and livelihoods.

Joey Concepcion also led the “A Dose of Hope” initiative that secured millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to the country. It was a tripartite agreement joined by the private sector, the government, and the vaccine manufacturer. Its goal is to secure supplies for the government as the demands continue to increase around the world.

Dr. Manuel M. Dayrit is recognized as one of the Philippines’ leading epidemiologists. He was Secretary of Health from 2001-2005 when he led the Department of Health in the suppression of SARS in 2003. He is currently active in COVID-19 control efforts as a member of Task Force T3, the private sector consortium supporting government’s pandemic control functions.

From 2005 to 2012, Dr. Dayrit was Director of the Department of Human Resources for Health at the World Health Organization in Geneva. From 2013 to 2019, he was Dean of the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health. Today he is Adjunct Professor at Ateneo.

Dr. Dayrit has degrees from the Ateneo de Manila University, the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He also trained at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is an Outstanding Young Scientist Awardee of the National Academy of Science and Technology and an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Anthony is a Managing Director and Senior Partner at BCG, with over 20 years of consulting experience in Europe, Middle-East and South-East Asia. He leads BCG’s office in Philippines, which he founded on the back of his 10+ years of experience supporting leading companies in the country.

Anthony has extensive expertise in growth acceleration strategy, large transformations and new business builds. He had led BCG’s TMT practice for the region for 4 years and currently oversee Learning & Development for Asia Pacific as part of our regional People team.

He holds an Engineer Degree from the Ecole Centrale Paris (France) and an MBA from INSEAD (Singapore).

Kelly Bird is Country Director for the Philippines, appointed to the position in January 2018. Prior to this assignment, he was Director of the Public Management, Financial Sector and Trade Division in the Southeast Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank. Prior to joining the ADB in 2006, he worked as part of a USAID-funded project with the Indonesian government from 1999 to 2005, and in 2006 as a consultant on trade policy with the World Bank in Jakarta. He graduated with a PhD in economics from the Australian National University in 1999. He has published several papers in international journals including Applied Economic Letters, Bulletin of Indonesian Studies, Journal of Development Studies, Oxford Development Studies, Southeast Asian Affairs, World Economy, and World Development.

Lulu Bravo is a Professor Emeritus at the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila. She is the former Vice Chancellor for Research and Executive Director of the National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila (2005 – 2011) and current head of the Vaccine Study Group of the NIH – UPM.

She is the President of the Immunization Partners in Asia Pacific (IPAP), current Executive Director and past President of the International Society of Tropical Pediatrics (ISTP) 2008 – 2011, past Chair and Founder of the Asian Strategic Alliance for Pneumococcal Disease Prevention (ASAP) 2007 – 2011, and Executive Director, Sec-General (1998 – 2006) & past President of the Asian Society for Pediatric Infectious Disease (ASPID) 2006 – 2008. She has served in various capacities in many other Asian medical and professional societies and as WHO Technical Advisor. She has served as well in national medical organizations such as PMA, PPS, PIDPS, PSMID and the Philippine Foundation for Vaccination (PFV) of which she is the founding President and current Executive Director.

Dr. Lulu Bravo completed her MD, pediatric residency and subspecialty training in infectious disease at Philippine General Hospital-College of Medicine of the University of the Philippines Manila. She supplemented her fellowship in pediatric infectious disease at the University of Texas Southwestern Health Science Center in Dallas, USA in 1986.