Amando M. Tetangco

Mr. Amando M. Tetangco, Jr. is currently the Independent Director of Belle Corporation and Converge ICT. He also currently holds directorates in Manila Hotel, Toyota Motor Philippines and CIBI Information, Inc. He is also a Trustee of St. Luke’s Medical Center, Tan Yan Kee Foundation and Foundation for Liberty and Prosperity. He was 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) in 1978 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in Wisconsin, USA.