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Education Symposium


Juan Miguel M. Luz
Undersecretary for Finance & Administration, Philippines

Brief

Juan Miguel M. Luz was core faculty of the Master in Business Management (MBM) Program and served as Managing Director of the Institute’s Ramon V. del Rosario Sr.-AIM Center for Corporate Responsibility, with the rank of associate professor.

Mr. Luz’s experience prior to joining AIM includes government, NGO, and the private sector. From 1995-1997, he was vice president for corporate affairs at the Far East Bank and Trust Company and was editor of the Bank’s itself. In 1985-87 and 1993-95, he was associate director of Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), the largest social development NGO in the country. The two stints at PBSP were interrupted by an appointment as presidential staff director in the Presidential Management Staff (Office of the President) during the administration of President Corazon C. Aquino (1987-91) where he handled regional operations and the political affairs staff. At PMS, Mr. Luz was the head of the technical working group that developed the Government position on autonomy which eventually led to the creation and establishment of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. As PBSP head of training and research, he headed the team that drafted the management plan for the Third Elementary Education of the Department of Education, Culture and Sport funded by the World Bank.

From 1988 through February 2002, Mr. Luz served as director of operations of the APEC Business Advisory Council, the private sector advisory body to the APEC Leaders. In addition, he served as executive director of the Philippine National Museum Foundation, a private sector foundation that raised funds for the renovation of the National Museum, was a trustee of the Heritage Conservation Society of the Philippines and is currently on the board of Museo Pambata ng Pilipinas.

Mr. Luz has published two books on corporate-community relations, a case book on the strategic management of non-governmental organizations in Asia; and a case book (co-editor) on Basic Christian Communities in the Philippines.

Mr. Luz holds a Master in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1992) where he was an Edward S. Mason Fellow in International Development.

On November 12, 2002, Mr. Luz was appointed Undersecretary of the Department of Education. He heads the Finance and Administration of the said Department and is concurrently the Deputy Project Director for the Third Elementary Education Project (TEEP), the Secondary Education Development and Improvement Project (SEDIP) and the Social Expenditure Management Project (SEMP).


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