Romeo L. Bernardo

Mr. Romeo L. Bernardo is an Independent Director of Aboitiz Power Corporation, a position he has held since 19 May 2008. He is the Managing Director of Lazaro Bernardo Tiu and Associates, a boutique financial advisory firm based in Manila. He is also an economist of GlobalSource in the Philippines. He is Chairman of ALFM Family of Funds and Philippine Stock Index Fund. He is a Director of the following publicly-listed corporations: Globe Telecom, Inc. (Globe Telecom) and Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), an Independent Director of RFM Corporation, and PHINMA, Inc. He is also currently affiliated in various capacities with the Foundation for Economic Freedom, Management Association of the Philippines, FINEX Foundation, and World Bank Philippine Advisory Group.

Mr. Bernardo previously served as Undersecretary for International Finance of the Department of Finance, and as Alternate Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank. He has held various positions in government, including the National Power Corporation (NPC) and Philippine National Bank. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies from October 2005 until March 2016. He was an Advisor of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and served as Deputy Chief of the Philippine Delegation to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (World Trade Organization) in 1979. In the same year, he was Finance Attaché of the Philippine Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. He was formerly President of the Philippine Economics Society, Chairman of the Federation of ASEAN Economic Societies, and a faculty of the College of Business Administration of the University of the Philippines.

Mr. Bernardo holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Economics from the University of the Philippines (magna cum laude) and a Master’s degree in Development Economics from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, the U.S.A. where he graduated top of the class. He is not connected with any government agency or instrumentality.