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Juanita Amatong

Filipina politician

Summary

Filipina politician

Field	Value
name	Juanita D. Amatong
office	Philippine Secretary of Finance
president	Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
term_start	December 1, 2003
term_end	February 14, 2005
predecessor	Jose Isidro Camacho
successor	Cesar Purisima
birth_date
birth_place	Bindoy, Negros Oriental, Philippines
nationality	Filipino
spouse	Ernesto Sybico Amatong
relations	Isagani S. Amatong (brother-in-law)
Prospero Amatong (brother-in-law)
Jacobo Amatong (brother-in-law)
Rommel Amatong (nephew)
children	3
residence	Dipolog, Philippines

Prospero Amatong (brother-in-law) Jacobo Amatong (brother-in-law) Rommel Amatong (nephew) Silliman University (BA, PhD)

Syracuse University (MA)

Juanita Amatong ( Dy; born March 23, 1935) is a Filipino banker, educator, and former public servant. She previously served as member of the Monetary Board of the Philippines, a policy-making body of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines), and former Secretary of Finance in the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo administration. Amatong has been in government service since 1971 starting as Senior Financial Analyst. Prior to her appointment as Secretary, she served as Undersecretary and eventually as Acting Secretary of the Department of Finance. She also served as the first woman executive director in the World Bank Group from the Philippines.

Education

Amatong graduated from Bindoy Elementary School in Bindoy, Negros Oriental, and finished her secondary education at Silliman University. She obtained her bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Silliman University as cum laude, and pursued a master's degree in Economics and Public Administration from Syracuse University in New York.

She further pursued her Post-Graduate Seminar on Public Enterprises at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Social Sciences from Silliman University.

Career

Prior to her entry in the government service, she worked as an associate professor at Silliman University from 1959 to 1960, as tax economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1963 to 1968, and as a lecturer at the Andres Bonifacio College in Dipolog, Zamboanga del Norte in 1968–1971.

Personal life

She is married to Ernesto Sybico Amatong, a former member of the Batasang Pambansa, former congressman of Zamboanga del Norte's 2nd legislative district, and one of the delegates to the 1971 Constitutional Convention.

Footnotes

before= Jose Isidro Camacho | title= Secretary of Finance| years= 2003 – 2005| after= Margarito Teves|

References

"Juanita Amatong".
Kabiling, Genalyn D.. (3 June 2005). "GMA names 3 Monetary Board Members".
"CITI-FT Financial Educational Summit 2008 » Juanita Amatong".
(19 August 2013). "Former Sec. of Finance and former Member of the Monetary Board Juanita D. Amatong joins ABCollege's roster of faculty".

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