Democracy Building in Southeast Asia (ASEAN) and South Asia (SAARC)
EU Relations with South and Southeast Asia
Experience:
Assistant Director at the Bureau for External Relations and Coordination and Head of the ASAS (ASEAN Standing Committee, Senior Officials Meeting, ASEAN Ministerial Meeting and Summit) Unit, which managed the main organs of ASEAN; Assistant to the Secretary-General of ASEAN on special concerns, such as the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), ASEAN Secretariat Co-ordinator for Avian Influenza and Head, Investment and Enterprise Unit (2004-2008)
Programme Officer, Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (2002-2004)
Deputy Director General, Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2001-2002)
Assistant to the Philippine Secretary of Trade and Industry (2000)
Education:
University of the Philippines (Master of Arts in Economics, 1999)
University of the Philippines (Bachelor of Arts in Political Science - Cum Laude, 1995)
