Profile :: The Honorable ROMULO L. NERI
Secretary
Tel.#: +63 (02) 9100823; 6332713
Fax # +63 (02) 6355829
Website: http://www.ched.gov.ph


Prior to his appointment as Budget Secretary last July 2005, Neri served as NEDA Director General and of the House of Representatives’ Congressional Planning and Budget Office (CPBO).

As CPBO director-general, Neri provided advice to the leadership of the Philippine House of Representatives on socioeconomic issues, particularly on fiscal and monetary policies, development financing, and the budget of the national government.

He was a Eugenio Lopez Foundation associate professor for Corporate Financial Management at the Asian Institute of Management and as former corporate planning and finance officer of such companies as Canlubang Sugar Estate, Canlubang Pulp and Manufacturing Corporation, C-J Yulo and Sons Inc., Philippine National Oil Company, Luzon Stevedoring Corporation and Mobil Oil Philippines, Inc.

Neri obtained his master’s degree in business administration in 1979 at the Graduate School of Management, University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), majoring in Finance and International Management. He finished his business administration degree, major in marketing, at the U.P College of Business Administration in 1970, graduating class valedictorian and magna cum laude. He finished his high school at the Ateneo de Manila.

Neri became head of NEDA again on February 2006 and headed the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) July 2007.

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