Dante Canlas

Dante Canlas
Dr. Canlas speaking at a PIDS conference in September 2015

10th Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority Concurrently Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning
In office January 20, 2001 – December 13, 2002
President	Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Preceded by	Felipe Medalla
Succeeded by	Romulo Neri

Personal details
Nationality	Filipino
Alma mater	University of the Philippines Diliman
Occupation	Professor
Profession	Economist

Dante B. Canlas is a Filipino economist and a professor at the UP School of Economics at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He served as Socio-Economic Planning Secretary and concurrently Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority from 2001 to 2002 under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Dr. Canlas was also the Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for Kazakhstan, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Pakistan, and the Philippines from 2003 to 2004.

He earned his B.S. in mathematics, M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of the Philippines, where he was a member of Upsilon Sigma Phi.^[1]^[2] He completed his dissertation "Marital Fertility and Working Wives in the Philippines: An Economic Analysis" in 1978.^[3] He was Visiting Professor at Northern Illinois University in De Kalb, Illinois and Research Fellow at the prestigious Princeton University in New Jersey.

References

^ Torrevillas, Domini M. "Upsilonians hold 12th world congress". philstar.com. Retrieved 2017-09-02.
^ Torrevillas, FROM THE STANDS By Domini M. "Upsilon mystique". philstar.com. Retrieved 2017-09-02.
^ Dissertation title in the Philippine Economic Journal, Volume 20, Issues 46-48

Preceded by Felipe Medalla	Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority 2001 – 2002	Succeeded by Romulo Neri

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