Let me extend a warm Filipino welcome to all our guests for joining us in today’s Meet and Greet session with the Philippine Embassy and the US-Philippines Society. During the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank (WB) Annual Meetings in 2016, I addressed this audience as the Philippine Budget Secretary.
I am pleased to represent the Philippines, this time, as head of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas —a hat I’ve been wearing for nearly seven months now. Despite this change of roles and mandates for policy formulation, at least two things remain as necessary. First, conversation with and inputs from stakeholders form an important part of the policy making process.