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| The Honorable
Vincent S. Perez |
| Secretary |
| Department of
Energy |
Vincent S. Pérez, 43, is the Secretary of
the Department of Energy (DOE), having been appointed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
to implement the recently enacted Power Reform Law. He is also the Ex-Officio Chairman of
the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) and the National Electrification Authority
(NEA). Prior to his appointment, he served as the Undersecretary of the Industry and
Investments Group of the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Vice-Chairman and
Managing Head of the Board of Investments.
Prior to joining the government in March 2001, Mr. Pérez has over 18 years experience in
private equity and capital markets and emerging markets. He was an international officer
at Mellon Bank, N.A. in Pittsburgh from 1983 to 1986 in its Latin American restructuring
group. Previously, he had internships with New Jersey National Bank, Citibank N.A. and Far
East Bank and Trust Co.
Mr. Pérez pioneered Lazard Freres & Co.'s emerging markets team in New York where he
arranged numerous debt and equity financing in Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia,
Mexico, Philippines and Turkey. Until he resigned in 1996, he worked as Managing Director
of Lazard Asia and a General Partner of Lazard Freres & Co. in New York.
Mr. Pérez co-founded Next Century Partners in 1996, a private equity firm that focused on
investing in Asia. He has been actively involved in bringing prominent foreign investors
into the Philippines.
Mr. Pérez holds an MBA from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania
and a Bachelor's Degree in Business Economics from the University of the Philippines. In
1994, he was named as one of the Top 100 Emerging Market Superstars by Global Finance
magazine. He has the distinction of being the first Asian partner at Lazard and the first
Filipino partner on Wall Street. |
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