Arsenio Balisacan

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Arsenio Balisacan
Official portrait, 2022
13th and 16th Secretary of the National Economic and Development Authority
Incumbent
Assumed office June 30, 2022
President	Bongbong Marcos
Preceded by	Karl Kendrick Chua
In office May 10, 2012 – January 31, 2016
President	Benigno S. Aquino III
Preceded by	Cayetano Paderanga Jr.
Succeeded by	Emmanuel Esguerra (OIC)
Chairperson of the Philippine Competition Commission[1]
In office February 1, 2016 – June 30, 2022
President	Benigno S. Aquino III Rodrigo Duterte
Preceded by	Office Created
Succeeded by	Johannes Benjamin R. Bernabe (OIC)
Personal details
Born	Arsenio Molina Balisacan (1957-11-08) November 8, 1957 (age 66) Solsona, Ilocos Norte
Nationality	Filipino
Alma mater	Mariano Marcos State University (BS) University of the Philippines Los Baños (MS) University of Hawaii at Manoa (Ph.D. Ec.)
Occupation	Economist

Arsenio Molina Balisacan (born November 8, 1957) is a Filipino economist and academician currently serving as the Secretary of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).^[2] Balisacan first served as the NEDA Secretary from May 2012^[3][4] to January 2016 under the Benigno Aquino III administration. He then served under the Duterte administration as the Chairperson of the Philippine Competition Commission from February 1, 2016, to June 30, 2022.^[5] He was again appointed as NEDA Secretary under the Bongbong Marcos administration.^[6] During his first term in 2012, he concurrently served as NEDA Secretary and as Chairman of the Boards of the Philippine Statistics Authority, Philippine Institute for Development Studies, Philippine Center for Economic Development, and Public-Private Partnership Center.

Prior to his Cabinet appointment, Balisacan served as both Professor and Dean of the School of Economics at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UP) while he was running the Philippine Center for Economic Development as its executive director.^[7] He additionally served as the Director-Chief Executive of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA),^[7] during a period of secondment from the university.

Balisacan also served as a research fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu and an economist at the World Bank in Washington, DC prior to joining the UP faculty in 1987. As a PhD in economics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa,^[8] Balisacan is a renowned academician of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) since 2008.^[9]