A quintessential Filipino and financial whiz

Today’s generation may have only heard or encountered his name in passing from their parents or the media. But Filipinos who well remember the exciting times of the Ramos administration will also know him as the financial whiz the country critically needed in the post of Finance Secretary from 1994 to 1998.

To friends, he is an exceptional golfer, taekwondo blackbelter and splendid classical guitar player. Peers admire him as an eloquent extemporaneous speaker, with personnel and students of the Asian Institute of Management regarding him as the amiable president of the prestigious institution.