Dennis B. Funa

Dennis B. Funa is a Filipino lawyer, businessman, public official, law book author, professor of law, constitutionalist, and the current Commissioner of the Philippines' Insurance Commission. As a Filipino lawyer, he is the managing partner of a Metro Manila based law firm. He has served the Philippine government from 1992 to 1998, and 2013 to the present in various capacities.

He finished his undergraduate degree in De La Salle University in Manila with a degree of Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing. He then took up and finished his Bachelor of Laws degree at the San Beda College of Law. He finished his secondary studies also at San Beda. He took his elementary studies at the St. Francis Xavier School of New York in New York City, the United States.

He received special training as a scholar of the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) in Tokyo, Japan in 1999. He was a scholar of the London-based International Bar Association during its Biennial Conference in New Delhi, India in 1997.

In 1992, he became the Special Assistant to the Appointments Secretary of Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos. Soon thereafter, he became the Technical Assistant (Director) to the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel of President Fidel Ramos. At the age of 28, he became the youngest presidential-appointee of President Ramos when he became the Executive Director of the Videogram Regulatory Board, which later became the Optical Media Board. He was concurrently member of the Presidential Inter-Agency Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the National Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee.

He also spoke in various intellectual property rights-related conventions, such as in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)-Asia Pacific Conference on New Technology and the Enforcement of Copyright held in Bali, Indonesia in 1995, and in the WIPO-ASEAN Regional Round Table on IPR Cooperation and the TRIPS Agreement held in Thailand in 1996.

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