Amando M. Tetangco, Jr.

Mr. Tetangco is an Independent Director of Belle Corporation who was elected on December 4, 2017. He is concurrently an independent director of Manila Hotel, Toyota Motor Philippines, Converge ICT, and CIBI Information, Inc., a trustee of Tan Yan Kee Foundation and Foundation for Liberty and Prosperity, and a trustee/director of St. Luke’s Medical Center. Mr. Tetangco is the third Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and served for two consecutive 6-year terms from July 2005 to July 2017. Under his leadership, the BSP initiated bank regulatory reforms such as risk management, capitalization increase and asset quality, among others. A career central banker, he occupied different positions at the BSP where he started as an employee at the BSP’s Department of Economic Research and rose from the ranks. He was connected with the Management Services Division of SyCip Gorres Velayo & Co. before he joined the BSP.

Mr. Tetangco graduated from Ateneo de Manila University with an AB Economics degree (Cum Laude) where he also took up graduate courses in Business Administration. As a BSP scholar, he obtained his MA in Public Policy and Administration (Development Economics) at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, USA.