Arsenio Balisacan
| Arsenio M. Balisacan | |
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| ChairpersonPhilippine Competition Commission | |
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Assumed office February 1, 2016 |
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| President |
Benigno S. Aquino III Rodrigo Duterte |
| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Director-General National Economic and Development Authority | |
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In office May 10, 2012 – January 31, 2016 |
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| President | Benigno S. Aquino III |
| Preceded by | Cayetano Paderanga, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Emmanuel Esguerra (OIC) |
| Academician, National Academy of Science and Technology, Philippines | |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Alma mater |
University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Mariano Marcos State University |
| Occupation | Economist |
| Website | http://neda.gov.ph/ , http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/about-upse/faculty/ambalisacan/ and http://phcc.gov.ph/list-of-officials/chairman-arsenio-m-balisacan-2/ |
Arsenio M. Balisacan is a Filipino economist and academic serving as the first chairperson of the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC), the country's antitrust agency enforcing prohibitions against anti-competitive business acts and practices. Prior to his appointment in the Commission, he served as the Philippine Socioeconomic Planning Secretary from May 2012 to January 2016 under the administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III. As Socioeconomic Planning Secretary, he concurrently served as Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), and as Chairman of the Boards of the Philippine Statistics Authority, Philippine Institute for Development Studies, Philippine Center for Economic Development, and Public-Private Partnership Center.
Prior to his Cabinet appointment, he was Professor and Dean of School of Economics of the University of the Philippines Diliman and concurrently Executive Director of the Philippine Center for Economic Development.
A holder of PhD in Economics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, he has been an Academician of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) since 2008.
Balisacan was born in Solsona, Ilocos Norte, a remote town located at the foot of the Sierra Madre mountain range. Balisacan’s father was initially a farm tenant tilling fields in a resource-poor, isolated village of the town. When their nun relative convinced his father to take on a janitorial job in Laoag City, they had to leave their farm life behind. In the city, Balisacan, his five other siblings and their parents stayed in a land where they were later evicted. Balisacan said he was in high school when their family was forced out of the property and had to go back to their tiny village at the easternmost part of Ilocos Norte. “It was tough. It was only later on that I realized that we were an informal settler. We were squatting in somebody’s land. [When] I was already in high school, we were evicted from that place, and we had to return to that old town of ours,” Balisacan recalled.
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