The Environment and Urban Development and Infrastructure and Logistics Committee of AmCham Philippines will be conducting a webinar entitled "Connectivity: Infrastructure and Transportation in the Philippines" on March 7, 2022, 2 PM - 4 PM.
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Undersecretary,Investment Programming Group (IPG) at National Economic Development Authority (NEDA)
Joseph J. Capuno serves as the Undersecretary for the Investment Planning of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).
As Undersecretary for Investment Programming at the NEDA, he is tasked to oversee the formulation of strategies for efficiency in linking the government's planning, programming, and implementation of projects. He is also tasked to provide policy guidance in the project appraisal, monitoring and evaluation of big-ticket infrastructure projects of the national government, formulation of development plans and policies, and programming of the official development assistance (ODA), among others.
Before his Secondment to NEDA, Dr. Capuno was a professor at the School of Economics, University of the Philippines Diliman. He has published research works on fiscal decentralization, health care utilization and financing, impact evaluation, and subnational growth and development.
Undersecretary for Planning and Public-Private Partnership Services at Department of Public Works and Highways
If there is a model for “woman infrastructure” in an organization dominated by male officials and employee, it is Undersecretary MARIA CATALINA E. CABRAL, who made history when she became the first female rank and file employee who reached the level of Undersecretary in the hierarchy of officials in the engineering and construction arm of the government.
A licensed Civil Engineer, Undersecretary Cabral has three (3) Masters Degrees and two (2) Doctorate Degrees in the field of Business Management, Economics and Public Administration. And at present she is finishing another Doctorate Degree on Urban and Regional Planning at the University of the Philippines.
2021 Professorial Chair in Engineering, Science and Technology in Polytechnic University of the Philippines; Undersecretary Cabral is a registered ASEAN and APEC Engineer and has been conferred as an Honorary Fellow by the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organization. She is the 2017-2018 National President and first female highest leader of the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE); And the 2019-2021 National President of the Road Engineering Association of the Philippines; She is also a Commissioned Reserve Force in the Armed Forces of the Philippines with the rank of LIEUTENANT COLONEL in the Philippine Army.
Her competence, excellence, and commendable track record earned her various awards and recognitions like the 2021 PEZA Galing Pinas Ecozone Partnership Award; the 2020 Excellence Award from the Philippine Federations of Professional Associations; the 2018 Most Outstanding Alumni Award, College of Engineering and 2021 Most Outstanding Alumni by the University of the East; as 2021 Outstanding Professional of the year in the field of Civil Engineering by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). And recently awarded by the JCI Senate Philippines as one of the Five Outstanding Filipino Awardees (TOFIL) Laureate for Government and Public Service for the year 2022.
Principal Architect - Urban Planner at Palafox Associates
Architect and Urban Planner Felino “Jun” Palafox, Jr. has 43 years of experience in architecture and 41 years in planning. He has collaborated with some of the best designers, leaders, and developers in the world. A registered APEC Architect, he founded Palafox Associates, the world-renowned architectural design and planning firm in the Philippines in 1989.
Jun Palafox has been a recipient of several local and international awards, most notably as Ambassador for Peace from the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace given in New York, Outstanding Professional Awardee for 2012. He was also cited by Forbes Asia Magazine as one of the 48 Heroes of Philanthropy in Asia, one of four in the Philippines.
He is an international associate/member of international organizations like the American Institute of Architects, U.S. Green Building Council, Urban Land Institute, and the American Planning Association. He is a Fellow for the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. He was also the former president of both the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) and the Philippine Institute of Environmental Planners (PIEP). He has lectured in Harvard University, MIT, Asian Institute of Management, and in 16 other countries in Asia, Europe, and North America. He is also an adjunct professor in Hotel Planning and Design at Enderun Colleges.
Palafox holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Santo Tomas, a Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of the Philippines, and Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Project Development at Department of Transportation (DOTr)
Leonel "Leo" De Velez serves as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Project Development. He was previously a Project Manager of the North-South Commuter Railway System. Leo has been involved in several transportation projects such as the Regional Airports Public-Private Partnership (PPP), NAIA PPP, PNR South Long Haul, Mindanao Railway, and Subic-Clark Railway. He joined DOTr in 2015 after obtaining his BSFS in International Economics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
