Arsenio Balisacan

Arsenio Balisacan
Official portrait, 2022
13th and 16th Secretary of the National Economic and Development Authority
Assumed office
June 30, 2022
PresidentBongbong Marcos
Preceded byKarl Kendrick Chua
In office
May 10, 2012 – January 31, 2016
PresidentBenigno S. Aquino III
Preceded byCayetano Paderanga Jr.
Succeeded byEmmanuel Esguerra (OIC)
Chairperson of the Philippine Competition Commission[1]
In office
February 1, 2016 – June 30, 2022
PresidentBenigno S. Aquino III
Rodrigo Duterte
Preceded byOffice Created
Succeeded byJohannes Benjamin R. Bernabe (OIC)
Personal details
Born
Arsenio Molina Balisacan

(1957-11-08) November 8, 1957 (age 66)
Solsona, Ilocos Norte
NationalityFilipino
Alma materMariano Marcos State University (BS)
University of the Philippines Los Baños (MS)
University of Hawaii at Manoa (Ph.D. Ec.)
OccupationEconomist

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]

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  2. ^ "Secretary's Corner". NEDA. July 7, 2022. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
  3. ^ Aquino appoints UP's Dean Balisacan as new NEDA chief, GMA News Online, May 12, 2012, retrieved April 30, 2014
  4. ^ PNoy names new NEDA chief; Paderanga stepping down for health reasons, GMA News Online, May 12, 2012, retrieved April 30, 2014
  5. ^ "Secretary Balisacan to head Philippine Competition Commission". Official Gazette. January 25, 2016. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
  6. ^ "PCC chief Balisacan accepts Marcos offer to head Neda". Business Mirror. May 23, 2022. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
  7. ^ a b "UP School of Economics Faculty Profile: Arsenio M. Balisacan". UP School of Economics Website. UP School of Economics. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  8. ^ "UH Manoa alumnus named top economist in the Philippines".
  9. ^ National Academy of Science and Technology Member Profile: Balisacan, Arsenio M. (Social Sciences Division), National Academy of Science and Technology, 2008, archived from the original on April 29, 2014, retrieved April 30, 2014