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| The Honorable
EMILIA T. BONCODIN |
| Secretary |
| Department of
Budget and Management |
Sec. Boncodin is a true-blue career official whose ascent up the hierarchical ladder at
the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is nothing short of meteoric.
From Senior Fiscal Planning Specialist in 1978, she quickly rose to become Division Chief
at age 27, then Director of the then Office of Budget and Management, and then
Officer-in-Charge of the Government Corporations Budget Bureau of the reorganized DBM. In
1989, she was appointed as Assistant Secretary and eventually in 1991 as Undersecretary of
DBM.
On the side, she was a Professorial Lecturer at the University of the Philippines and the
Lyceum of the Philippines.
A native of Iriga City, Sec. Boncodin was a topnotch student since her elementary days as
valedictorian of Iriga Central Pilot School and valedictorian of St. Anthony College, also
in Iriga City. She was a government scholar at the UP where she completed her BS in
Business Administration & Accountancy in 1975. She placed 15th in the CPA Board
Examinations that same year.
In 1986, she finished her Masters in Public Administration at Harvard University in
Cambridge where she was an Edward S. Mason Fellow.
A recipient of many awards and citations attesting to her diligence and technical
proficiency, she was the Most Outstanding Technical Employee in 1978 as well as the Most
Outstanding Division Chief in 1981. She was also the Outstanding Alumna of the UP College
of Business Administration in 1992 and more importantly, an Outstanding Women in Nation's
Service Awardee in 1995. She was also the 1996 Dwight Eisenhower Fellow for the
Philippines. |
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