Mr. Rolando U. Toledo is the Undersecretary of the Budget Policy and Strategy (BPS) Group of the Philippine Department of Budget and Management (DBM). He directly oversees the operations of the Budget Information and Training Service (BITS) and the Fiscal Planning and Reforms Bureau (FPRB) in its conduct of fiscal policy research and planning, development of fiscal and budgeting frameworks, formulation of annual and quarterly whole-of-government allotment and cash release programs, and monitoring of macroeconomic developments and their impact on the budget. He currently chairs the Executive Technical Board of the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) which reviews and approves the macroeconomic targets, revenue projections, borrowing level, aggregate budget level, and expenditure priorities of the country.
Undersecretary Toledo is also the concurrent Spokesperson of the Department and the Chair of the Government Procurement Policy Board (GPPB). As the Lead Secretariat for the Philippine Open Government Partnership (OGP) and the Participatory Governance Cluster (PGC), Undersecretary Toledo supervises the Department’s initiatives that promote fiscal transparency and participatory governance.
Relevant to the implementation of the Supreme Court ruling on the Mandanas-Garcia case, the Undersecretary has been designated as the Chair of the Sub-Committee on Communications Strategy. As such, he leads the discussions on how to address misinformation and to harmonize the collaboration of the national and local governments for the effective implementation of the Supreme Court ruling.
Mr. Toledo graduated from the University of the East in 1984, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. He became a Certified Public Accountant a year after and took a Program in Development Economics from the University of the Philippines – School of Economics in 1994.