Dr. Allinnettes Go Adigue
Head, ASEAN Regional
Hub Global Reporting Initiative

Dr Allinnettes Go Adigue is the Head of the ASEAN Regional Hub of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). As Head of GRI’s ASEAN Hub, Ally is tasked to promote the practice of sustainability reporting across the region by working with relevant stakeholders in creating a conducive policy environment for sustainable business practices, foster the business case of sustainability reporting and build the capacity of organizations in sustainability reporting.

A lifelong learner and global citizen, Ally has lived in three continents in the past 15 years. Prior to GRI, Ally has previously worked for the academe and both the public and private sectors. While working on her PhD, she worked as a graduate research assistant in the field of Climate Change Policy and Economics. She also worked in a retail electricity company in Singapore and for the Office of the President of the Philippines. Ally earned her PhD on Public Policy from the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University in 2017. She has two Masters degrees: one in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Netherlands; and another in Public Administration from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. She also has Bachelor’s degrees in Law and Political Science.

Gloria Estenzo Ramos
Vice President
Oceana Philippines

Atty. Gloria ‘Golly’ Estenzo Ramos is the Vice President of Oceana Philippines and a member of the Executive Committee of Oceana International.

Oceana was founded in 2001 and is the largest international advocacy organization focused solely on ocean conservation. Its offices around the world work together to win strategic and time-bound campaigns and achieve measurable outcomes to help make our oceans more biodiverse and vibrant.

Oceana Philippines works to restore fisheries abundance through sustainable management interventions such as the strong enforcement of fisheries law to fight illegal and destructive fishing and the protection of marine habitats.

Since 2016, Oceana, together with key decision makers in government, private and civil society sectors, has strongly advocated for the protection of the Philippine Rise, including the pristine Benham Bank, which President Duterte proclaimed as a strict-protection marine resource reserve in May 15, 2018.

Oceana is a key partner of the government in implementing the ban on commercial fishing in municipal waters and protected seascapes nationwide.

To deter illegal commercial and destructive fishing, it has been pilot testing vessel monitoring technology for commercial fishing vessels in Tanon Strait and key fishing grounds in Visayas and Mindanao.

Before leading Oceana since it established its office in the Philippines in 2014, Golly was a Southeast Asia representative to the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Governing Board. She was a faculty member of the University of Cebu’s College of Law. She co-founded the Philippine Earth Justice Center, a nonprofit which institutes environmental cases and uses accountability tools to promote good governance while assisting in stakeholders’ compliance with environmental laws.

Among the prominent environmental cases she was involved with was stopping the offshore oil drilling project in the largest marine protected area in the country, the Tañon Strait Protected Seascape, which the Supreme Court declared in 2015 as unconstitutional. Together with other NGOs and partners, she also helped halt the indiscriminate dumping of coal ash, and a proposed destructive reclamation project within Tañon Strait.

Together with five Filipino environmental champions from the government and civil society, she received the People’s Gratitude Movement or the “Pasalamat sa Katauhan” award from the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the Institute of Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD) based in Washington DC during a recognition ceremony for their Outstanding Contributions to the Environment on July 25, at the UN Conference Centre in Bangkok, Thailand.

Awarded by the Globe Media Awards for Excellence in Journalism-Visayas as the ‘Columnist of the Year’ in 2017 and 2015, she maintains a weekly column on the environment and governance with Cebu Daily News, an affiliate of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

For more information on Oceana in the Philippines, log on to ph.oceana.org.

Mr. Augusto Hidalgo
Senior Director
Climate Resilience Hub, Willis Towers Watson

Augusto is the Climate and Resilience Hub’s Southeast Asia practice leader. He advises development banks, United Nations agencies, governments, regulators, and large corporations on action, disclosure and finance of climate, disaster and infectious disease resilience. Advisory services in disclosures aligned with the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations and climate change physical and transition risk and opportunity quantification are a strength.

Augusto led the development and administration of Willis Towers Watson’s first climate disclosure pulse survey in the Philippines which measures Philippine corporates’ readiness to make disclosures aligned with the recommendations of the TCFD. He is working with colleagues in China, Singapore, Indonesia, and India to run the survey in those markets.

Augusto is a Sherpa of the APEC Finance Ministers Process Disaster Risk Finance Working Group and was co-chair of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative’s Principles of Sustainable Insurance. He was also the chairman of the Philippine Insurers and Reinsurers Association, the insurance trade association which advocates to and interacts with the Philippine government and other sectors to create public awareness of the benefits and risk management and risk transfer, especially as it relates to disaster resilience. Augusto holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at the Northwestern University.

Mr. Mr. Enrique “Jet” Pampolina
Engagement Partner
Risk Advisory, Deloitte Philippines

Jet is a Risk Advisory Partner of Navarro Amper & Co., the Philippine practice of Deloitte Southeast Asia Ltd, a member of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited.

He has 33 years of professional experience and specializes in internal audit, enterprise-wide risk management, operational, financial risk and regulatory compliance in the financial services, energy, tech media & telecoms and industrial products & services sectors.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Jet was the Head of Enterprise Wide Risk Management of the largest electric distribution utility in the Philippines – Meralco, where he oversees the ERM function at Meralco and its subsidiaries. He also served as Regional Audit Executive and Vice President of a leading global financial services (insurance) company Sun Life Financial covering audit responsibilities in China, India, HK, Indonesia and the Philippines and was also Regional Audit Head of Willis Towers Watson, a leading global advisory, brokering and solutions company for Asia Pacific covering 22 offices in 13 countries from India to Australia.

In addition, he was previously a Director in Business and Advisory at one of the Big 4 accounting firms in the Philippines. He also had 7 years of expatriate internal audit experience working for leading multinational Indonesian conglomerates Salim and Sinar Mas Groups in Jakarta Indonesia, where he gained proficiency of Bahasa Indonesia, on top of his native languages of English and Filipino.

He is an advocate of Enterprise Risk Management and Business Continuity Management System providing regular talks to organizations and professional associations and developing eLearning modules to universities for free.
He is a graduate of BSC Commerce Major in Accountancy at the De La Salle University. A member of PICPA, Institute of Internal Auditors Philippines and Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines.

Mr. Constant Van Aerschot
Director Asia Pacific
World Business Council for Sustainable Development

He is a sustainability and construction sector expert. He supports companies in Asia to learn, share and adopt latest sustainability tools, standards and methodologies and help them embed these in business strategy, decision making processes and operations.

Constant sits on the board of two non-profit organizations and is part of the Executive Council of the Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) for United Nations’ Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
He is an expert in energy efficiency in buildings and an editorial advisor to the Singapore National Environment Agency (NEA).

Before moving to Singapore in 2013, he was VP Foresight for the global cement manufacturer Lafarge, a corporate strategist at the telecommunications equipment company Alcatel, and a practicing civil engineer in Switzerland, Germany and in the UK, mainly for ARUP. He holds a MSc in Civil Engineering (ETHZ, Switzerland), an MBA (Cranfield University, UK) and a diploma in Directorship (SMU, Singapore).

Mr. Matthias Gelber
ESG Advisor
Philippine Stock Exchange

Matthias Gelber pursued his passion to help the planet with a Master of Science Degree in Environmental Science and in 2008, he was voted ‘Greenest Person on the Planet’ in a global online competition and he received the Green Icon of the year award in Malaysia in 2016.

He built SE Asia’s first off-grid tiny mobile eco-home in Malaysia and he has given eco talks in a professional capacity in 42 countries worldwide. Locally he has been a consultant and trainer for ADB, DTI, CITEM, and many other organizations. Currently, he is ESG Advisor for the Philippine Stock Exchange and Brand Ambassador of Avant Wood Finland

Mr. Marvin Fausto
President
COL Investment Management

Marvin Fausto is the President and CIO of COL Investment Management, Inc. He is also COL Financial Group Chief Investment Strategist and launched COL Fund Source – the country’s first fund supermarket making investing in mutual funds easy and convenient. He is the Founding President of the Fund Managers Association of the Philippines (FMAP) and currently sits as Board Adviser of FMAP and the CFA Society Philippines. He is the Program Director for the Fund Management Certificate Program under the Ateneo Graduate School Center for Continuing Education.

He is the former Chief Investments Officer of BDO and has over three decades of experience in the fund management industry having worked as head of investments of various financial institutions where he was in charge of managing the largest trust funds in the country.

He graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Engineering. He also completed the Behavioral Economics executive program of the Harvard Business School. He is a Certified Securities Representative and a Certified Investment Solicitor.

Ms. Monica Bae
Regional Lead
Capital Markets, CDP

Monica Bae leads CDP’s regional engagement efforts with financial institutions across Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, where she works with asset owners, asset managers, banks and insurers in driving the financial sector’s transition to a low-carbon, forest-positive economy through engagement initiatives, portfolio analysis and product development. Prior to joining CDP, she has over 16 years of experience in financial services and economic research, as well as over six years in managing private debt funds for Asian institutional investors.

Dr. Arnil Paras
Country Director
AVPN

Dr. Arnil Paras is the country director of AVPN, a network organization devoted to moving capital towards impact in collaboration with various capital holders, such as impact investors, philanthropists, family foundation heads, corporate leaders and other social investors looking towards Asia. As head of the Philippine market, he is focused on ecosystem building for various initiatives including Covid-19 response, gender-lens investing, inclusive business and strategic philanthropy by bridging regional organizations with local stakeholders.

He is also a faculty member of the Asian Institute of Management where he has taught courses related to entrepreneurship, economics and development management. He has degrees from the London School of Economics and City University of Hong Kong.

Mr. Cezar P. Consing
Director
Ayala Corporation

Cezar Consing is Chairman of Philippine Dealing System Holdings Corporation and its three operating companies. He is a board director of four publicly listed companies in the Philippines: Ayala Corporation, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Globe Telecom and AC Energy Corporation. He was President & Chief Executive Officer of Bank of the Philippine Islands from 2013 to 2021, served as Chairman and President of the Bankers Association of the Philippines from 2019 to 2021, and served as President of Bancnet, Inc. from 2017 to 2021. He was a Partner with the Rohatyn Group from 2004 to 2013 and ran its private investing business in Asia out of Hong Kong. He was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan & Co. from 1985 to 2004, was based in Hong Kong and Singapore, and headed its investment banking business in Asia Pacific from 1997 to 2004. Mr. Consing previously served as an independent board director of four publicly listed companies: Jollibee Foods Corporation (2010 – 2021), CIMB Group Holdings (2006 – 2013), First Gen Corporation (2005 – 2013), and National Reinsurance Corporation (2014 – 2019), where he also served as Chairman (2018 – 2019). He obtained a bachelor’s degree in economics, magna cum laude, from De La Salle University in 1979 and a master’s degree in applied economics from the University of Michigan in 1980. He has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 2014.

Atty. Mara Ruiz
Securities Counsel II
Securities and Exchange Commission

Atty. Mara Ruiz was Bohol’s representative to Miss World Philippines 2021. She is a lawyer specializing in corporate governance and sustainability at the Securities and Exchange Commission. She is also an Environmental Law Professor at the University of Makati. She graduated from the Ateneo Law School with second honors and earned her degree in BS Psychology from the University of the Philippines Diliman. She also presented her dissertation at Stanford University regarding the public school system in the Philippines.

Ms. Ping Manongdo
Country Manager – Philippines
Eco-Business

Ping is Southeast Asia partnerships manager and Philippines country manager with Eco-Business, a Singapore-headquartered leading independent media and business intelligence company focused on ESG.

She is directly responsible for engaging with businesses invested in thought leadership conversations on climate change, sustainable production and consumption, renewable energy, waste, sustainable agriculture, smart cities, among others.

In her role, Ping delivers end-to-end solutions for partners around multi-media content and high-level stakeholder engagement events.

She has over 10 years of project management and journalism experience.

Ping is a candidate for Master of Public Policy and Administration – Social Change Leadership – at Adler University Vancouver. She completed a course with Global Reporting Initiative and Thomson Reuters on exploring corporate impact in 2019. She completed a course on Climate Change Science, Action, and Communication with Cornell University in 2016.

Prior to taking the helm for the Eco-Business Philippines office, Ping was a correspondent, where she was mainly responsible for producing top-level stories for the Daily Digest that goes out to Eco-Business’ over 130,000 high-level and unique subscribers worldwide.

Ping’s passion for sustainable development and purposeful journalism, and how this can powerfully transform the Asean region, is what excites her about her role.

Atty. Kelvin Lester Lee
Commissioner
Securities and Exchange Commission

Atty. Kelvin Lester K. Lee is a Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Philippines, a Law Professor of the Rizal Memorial Colleges School of Law, a Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) Lecturer for various institutions, and a Business Columnist of the Manila Times newspaper. He is a frequent speaker on corporate law, corporate governance, SEC regulations and fintech.

Prior to joining the Commission, he was an Assistant Secretary in the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Office of the President, where he was also designated to sit on the Board of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority.

Before entering government service, Atty. Lee practiced law in Davao and Manila. He was also formerly an opinion and legal columnist of the Sunstar Davao newspaper.

Atty. Lee earned a Bachelor’s degree from the Ateneo de Manila University, a Juris Doctor degree from the Ateneo de Manila School of Law and Certificates from the University of Cambridge’s Fintech & Regulatory Innovation Program and the Toronto Centre’s Regional Leadership Program for Securities Regulators.

Atty. Randy B. Escolango
Deputy Commissioner
Insurance Commission

Atty. Randy B. Escolango is the Deputy Insurance Commissioner for Legal Services of the Insurance Commission, an Accredited Financial Analyst, a columnist for the Manila Times, a Professor of Law on Insurance and other Commercial Laws, and a lecturer in Mandatory Continuing Legal Education for Lawyers.

He was a former vice-president of the Philippine Association of Government Corporate Lawyers and a former OIC-Administrator and CEO of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority.

Ms. Lyn I. Javier
Assistant Governor
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

Lyn I. Javier is the Assistant Governor of the Policy and Specialized Supervision Sub-Sector under the Financial Supervision Sector of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). She oversees the supervisory policy and data departments of the BSP as well as the supervision of specialized areas, specifically money laundering, information technology, treasury and trust operations.

Ms. Javier is the designated BSP representative to the Basel Consultative Group, the Executives’ Meeting of East Asia-Pacific Central Banks Working Group on Banking Supervision, and the Network for Greening the Financial System-Workstream on Scaling Up Green Finance.

At the domestic level, Ms. Javier is involved interagency committees and working groups related to the supervision of financial institutions and the promotion of sustainability agenda. She also represents the BSP in the accounting and auditing standard setting bodies in the Philippines.

Atty. Rachel Anne Herrera
Commissioner
Climate Change Commission

Rachel Anne Herrera is a Commissioner in the Climate Change Commission. She is an Alternate Board Member in the Green Climate Fund, the largest global finance mechanism for climate change projects, and in the People’s Survival Fund, the country’s adaptation finance mechanism.

Previously, she advised the Senate of the Philippines committees on climate change, finance, foreign affairs, and environment and worked for the passage of a number of landmark climate and environmental laws and international treaties, such as the country’s accession to the Paris Agreement.

She earlier served as law clerk to a Supreme Court Associate Justice, and in the International Committee of the Red Cross.

She obtained her degrees in law from the University of the Philippines and in environmental science from Ateneo de Manila.

Atty. Paola Sherina A. Alvarez
Assistant Secretary
Department of Finance

Atty. Paola Sherina A. Alvarez is currently the Assistant Secretary for International Finance and Special Projects and the official Spokesperson and Head of Communications at the Department of Finance (DOF).

Atty. Paola Sherina A. Alvarez is currently the Assistant Secretary for InterAs an Assistant Secretary, she handles sustainable and climate finance, as well as disaster risk finance. She also manages special projects, such as the Inter-Agency Task Force on Marawi Rehabilitation and the Inter-Agency Task Force on Infectious Diseases (IATF-COVID-19). She sits as the Secretary of Finance’s alternate in different international platforms, such as the ASEAN DRFI-TWG, APEC, SEADRIF, and the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action.

Atty. Paola Sherina A. Alvarez is currently the Assistant Secretary for InterAs head of communications, she provides the overall direction and guidance on the content of the communication materials from the DOF published across digital and traditional platforms.

Atty. Roel Arco Refran
Chief Operating Officer
The Philippine Stock Exchange

ROEL ARCO REFRAN is the Chief Operating Officer of The Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. (PSE).

Roel is a Professorial Lecturer at the University of the Philippines Virata School of Business and an Adjunct Faculty at the Asian Institute of Management. He is a Professor of Law at Ateneo Law School.

Roel holds an MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in the USA where he was a Fulbright scholar. Roel worked as an associate at the Emory Center for Alternative Investments (ECAI) where he was immersed in alternative investment issues pertinent to private equity, hedge fund and venture capital.

Roel earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Accountancy (BSBAA) degree, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of the Philippines in 1995, and his Juris Doctor (JD) degree (Second Honors) from the Ateneo Law School in 1999.

In 2014, the University of the Philippines Virata School of Business conferred on Roel the Distinguished Alumni Award.