Event Details

The year 2022 serves as a dramatic inflection point for many businesses. This pushes many business leaders to rethink and re-adjust their strategies in continuing their businesses effectively. On the other hand, the year 2021 showed a glimmer of hope for many businesses to get back into normalcy.


However, the future remains uncertain and this could either present new opportunities or new risks. Various researchers would argue that hybrids may be the new normal. And in effectively adapting continuously, the agility and adaptability skills of our leaders are now needed more than ever.


The past years only show how agile business leaders can adapt. But a global challenge requires a global and more holistic approach. Hence, the American Chamber of Commerce is organizing a roundtable discussion among its Board of Directors, Committee Chairpersons, Corporate Partners, and other stakeholders in discussing our way forward.


We invited Secretary Ramon Lopez, DTI to set the tone on how the government sees 2022 shaping up for businesses and how we can operate and move holistically.


Objectives

  • To provide a venue in discussing a more holistic approach of how can business leaders can converge their efforts toward a more sustainable and safer economy
  • To provide a venue in sharing best business practices in ensuring effective and continuous operations
  • Ultimately, adapt business leaders' wisdom in the continuous improvement of our economy and society

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This webinar is FREE of Charge



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Speaker

  • Ramon Lopez (Secretary at Department of Trade and Industry)

    Ramon Lopez

    Secretary at Department of Trade and Industry

    Ramon M. Lopez is the Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). His extensive government experience with the Presidential Management Staff (PMS), DTI, and the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) in the early part of his career provided him with a solid background on macroeconomic and industry development that allowed him to adopt a more holistic trade approach when he moved to the private sector and became a top executive of a major Philippine food and beverage company for over 23 years.

    As a strong advocate for free entrepreneurship education for 12 years, he was called to serve the country again under President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s administration as the DTI Secretary. He chairs several institutions under DTI such as the Board of Investments (BOI), the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA), the Small Business Corporation (SB Corp.), the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), National Development Corporation (NDC), Export Development Council (EDC), Halal Board. He also supervises attached agencies such as the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) and the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA).

    He has received several awards such as: the Honorary Agora in Nation Building Award in 2018; the 2016 Nation Builders Award for Government Service for his role as prime mover in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (MSME) development; and the Philippine Innovation Man of the Year Award in 2017 for the promotion of social entrepreneurship through innovation. In 2018, he received from President Duterte the Order of Sikatuna, with a rank of Datu, one of the senior honors one can receive in the Philippines.

    He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines and topped his Master’s Degree in Development Economics class at Williams College, Massachusetts.

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