Field of specialization:
- Management Development
- Strategic Planning
- Industrial Policy Formulation
- Investment Promotion
- Development Economics
- Social Economics,
- Business Economics
- Strategic Management
Professor Bernardo M. Villegas, Ph.D
The Research Director and one of the founders of CRC, Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas is one of the Philippines’ most eminent economists.
He has advised Philippine government administrations on industrial policy formulation and investment promotion since the 1970s, and his preeminence in the field even led to him being appointed as one of the delegates to the convention that framed the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines.
Aside from being the CRC’s research director, he also serves as Professor at the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) and Visiting Professor of IESE Business School in Barcelona. He has written some of the Philippines’ most influential economics textbooks, used extensively in Philippine schools and universities. Over the years, he has also written a number of management best-sellers like The Philippine Advantage, Book of Virtues and Values, Productivity: Path to Global Competitiveness, The Filipino Phenomenon, The Philippines at the Threshold of the Third Millennium, and the Positive Dimensions of Population Growth.
He continues to work untiringly to promote investments in the Philippines, especially in the regions outside the National Capital Region, and is constantly guesting on investment road shows, briefing international audiences on the Philippines and the Asia Pacific region. And of course, in his continuing role as CRC’s research director, he faultlessly guides CRC in businesses all over the world as the research and consultancy link to Philippine business opportunities.
Field of specialization:
- Business and Industry Policy
- Competitive Strategy, and Business Sustainability
- Industry-based Policies
Winston Conrad B. Padojinog, D.B.A.
He has served as policy advisor to industry associations such as SEIPI, SHDA, and more than 20 LGUs, and is the current President of the University of Asia and the Pacific.
Field of specialization:
- International Economics
- Free Trade Areas
- The Services Trade
George N. Manzano, Ph.D.
Currently the Dean of the UA&P School of Economics, he was Member Commissioner of the Phil. Tariff Commission from 2004-2005, and Economic Affairs Officer in the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) from 2009-2010.
Field of specialization:
- Energy Economics
- Industrial Economics
- Mathematical Economics
- Econometrics
Peter Lee U, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor with the UA&P School of Economics, and had served as Dean from 2005 to 2015.
Focusing on energy economics, industrial economics, mathematical economics, and econometrics, he is currently a member of the Market Surveillance Committee of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market, as well as a current Board member of the Philippine Economic Society, becoming its President in 2012. He also served as the principal economist in the UA&P-SGV independent audit of oil prices; was a member of the 2005 Independent Review Committee on the Oil Deregulation Law; and was Visiting Research Fellow at the Nagoya University Economic Research Center.
Field of specialization:
- Industry Roadmap Development
- Human Capital Development
- Regional and Urban Development and Industrial Economics
- Urban and Regional Growth Prospects
- Consumer Markets
Roberto de Vera, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor with the UA&P School of Economics.
He was co investigator in two studies on health workforce service capacities and client satisfaction with DOH hospitals, for the UP National Institutes of Health in 2015; was team manager of the Philippine Iron and Steel Industry Competitiveness Roadmap project for the Department of Trade and Industry in 2012; conducted a cost-benefit analysis of Philippine basic education’s shift to the K-12 system; and audited the progress of several cities in implementing good governance measures, as a Solidarity Missions member for the Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA).
Field of specialization:
- Sustainability
- Business and Human Rights
- Local Governance, and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Corporate Sustainability Reporting
Professor Rolando T. Dy, Ph.D.
Specializes in agribusiness strategy, project analysis, agro-industrial competitive-ness benchmarking, and industry roadmap development.
Agencies he has advised range from international agencies such as USAID and the World Bank; government agencies such as the Department of Agriculture, DTI and NEDA; and numerous private corporations. He is the Director of the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food, Inc., and is the Executive Director of the UA&P Center for Food and Agribusiness.
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