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Pablito
M.
Villegas
President and CEO |
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Pablito M. Villegas, M.Sc., is an international
consultant who has had various assignments in many developing countries
such as Sri Lanka, Nepal, Kingdom of Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Laos,
Cambodia, Thailand, Namibia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Cook Islands, Western
Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines.
His assignments are concerned mostly with agricultural and rural
development as well as in agricultural and renewable resources policy
and development planning, agro-based industrial clustering and
the management and field implementation of agribusiness and
agro-industrial projects geared towards food security, sustainable rural
development and poverty alleviation.
He rose from the ranks at Land Bank of the Philippines where he
was Vice President and concurrently, President of Masaganang Sakahan,
Inc., an agribusiness subsidiary corporation of Land Bank.
He worked with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the
United Nations and United Nation’s Development Program as Chief
Technical Adviser/Senior Agricultural Economist in Papua New Guinea and
Kingdom of Tonga.
He was also a Senior Adviser of former Secretary of Agriculture,
Salvador H. Escudero III.
He also worked in the area of market and enterprise development
under the DA/Spanish Government-funded COTABATO Basin Integrated
Augmentation Support (BIGAS) Project in Central Mindanao and as a Rural
Credit Specialist in an ADB-funded Rural Development Project in Sri
Lanka. His recent work was a 7-month consulting stint in Indonesia where
he served as Team Leader cum Agro-based Industry Specialist for the
“Study on Restructuring the Agro-based Industries” (SRAI) in a
MADECOR-World Bank funded Project.
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EDUCATION
Master of Science in
Agricultural Economics (MSc), Major in Agribusiness and Marketing, University of Georgia, USA, 1974 Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Major in Agricultural Economics, Minor in Animal Husbandry, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines 1969
Diploma in Advanced Reserve
Officer’s Training Course (ROTC),
University of the Philippines Los Baños,
Philippines,
1969
Cadet Colonel and Commander of
Corps of Cadets. FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Professional, Managerial and Technical Services in Agricultural, Fishery, Forestry and Resource Development Policy and Planning Strategic Planning and Sectoral Program and Project Formulation Development Banking and Rural Finance Project Packaging and Management; Institutional Development and Support Services Management (research, extension and training) Agro-industrial Development and Agri-business Management; Agrarian Reform, Agricultural Marketing and Cooperatives Development Sustainable Agriculture, Farming Systems and Rural Development; Food Security and Nutrition Policy and Planning Gender and Women in Development Official Development Assistance Coordination and External Resources Mobilization Agricultural Governance and Civil Service Reforms Private Sector Corporate Management
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