Bernardo Villegas

Bernardo Villegas is a Filipino writer, thinker and economist. He was a member of the Constitutional Commission that drafted the Philippine Constitution under the government of former President Corazon Aquino. He has been an advisor of the recent Philippine Presidents. He is currently a University Professor and Senior Vice-President at the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P), the Chairman of the Center for Research and Communication, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Makati Business Club. He is visiting professor at IESE.

Studies

He is a Certified Public Accountant, having been one of the CPA board topnotchers in 1958. He obtained Bachelor's Degree in Commerce and the Humanities (both Summa Cum Laude) from De La Salle University where he established a record by obtaining straight A's in the LIACOM course, a five-year program he finished in four years. He earned his doctorate degree in economics at the Harvard University. At the age of 21, Prof Villegas was one of the youngest ever to be a teaching fellow at Harvard's College of Arts and Sciences.

Economist and business consultant

He sits on the boards of a large number of corporations, both Filipino and International, that operate in sectors and industries including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, power, banking, IT, infrastructure, transportation and engineering. Dr Villegas also sits on the boards of directors or advisory boards of leading national and multinational firms. He is also a consultant on management development and strategic planning for leading firms, non-government organizations and through his work with UA&P he is often asked to give advice to top government officials in many policy issues.

He was a member of the founding Executive Board of the Makati Business Club, together with Enrique Zobel and former Ambassador Joe Romero. The main thrust of the MBC is to foster and promote the role of the private business sector in national development efforts. He continues to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the Makati Business Club.

He is an author of seven books and articles in Global Nation. He has authored several economics textbooks widely used in Philippine schools and universities and also has written a number of management best sellers.

Awards

He has received several prestigious awards such as the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM), 1972, Fullbright, Johnson Foundation, Asia Foundation and the Instituto de Cultura Hispanica.

Written works

• State of the Philippine Economy
• Strategic Guidelines to Investments in the Philippines
• Challenge in Asia
• The Philippine Economy after the May Elections
• The Outlook of Asia Economic Region

• Book of Values, University of Asia and the Pacific, 1998, ISBN 9789718527405
• The Philippine Advantage, University of Asia and the Pacific, 2001, ISBN 9789718527559
• A Filipino's vision for recovery: polevaulting to the third millennium, University of Asia and the Pacific Foundation, 1997, ISBN 9789718527375
• The Philippines at the threshold of the third millennium, University of Asia and the Pacific in cooperation with Philip Morris Philippines Inc., 2000, ISBN 9789718527528
• The Filipino phenomenon, University of Asia and the Pacific Foundation, 1998, ISBN 9789718527443
• Economics and society: policy perspectives for the 1990s, Sinag-Tala Publishers, 1989, ISBN 9789711170745

External links

• Asia Speaker's Agency on Bernardo Villegas
• Cuervo appraisers' on Villegas' curriculum vitae
• Author's website