President, Asian Institute of Management and Former Secretary of Finance, Republic of the Philippines

Dr. Roberto F. de Ocampo is the current President of the Asian Institute of Management. As Secretary of Finance(1994-98) during the Presidency of Fidel V. Ramos, he was widely recognized as the principal architect of the resurgence of the Philippine economy whose achievement was hailed by the international finance community. As Secretary of Finance, he was concurrently a member of the Board of Governors of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank and an Alternate Governor of the International Monetary Fund. He also served as Chairman and CEO of the Development Bank of the Philippines from 1989 to 1994 and Chairman of the APEC Finance Ministers in 1997. In 1995, he was named"Finance Minister of the Year" by Euromoney magazine-- the first Filipino and first ASEAN Finance Minister to be so recognized. Dr. de Ocampo is the first ASEAN member of the Trilateral Commission, an international think-tank of distinguished leaders and was the 1975 Ten Outstanding Young Men(TOYM) awardee in the field of National Economic Development. He received his MBA from the University of Michigan, a post-graduate diploma from the London School of Economics and has been conferred three Doctorates(Honoris Causa).[Text of Speech]