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Dante Canlas
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Dr. Canlas speaking at a PIDS conference in September 2015
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| 10th Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority Concurrently Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning | |
| In office January 20, 2001 – December 13, 2002 | |
| President | Gloria Macapagal Arroyo |
| Preceded by | Felipe Medalla |
| Succeeded by | Romulo Neri |
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| Nationality | Filipino |
| Alma mater | University of the Philippines Diliman |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Profession | Economist |
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Dante B. Canlas is a Filipino economist and a professor at the UP School of Economics at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He served as Socio-Economic Planning Secretary and concurrently Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority from 2001 to 2002 under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Dr. Canlas was also the Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for Kazakhstan, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Pakistan, and the Philippines from 2003 to 2004.
He earned his B.S. in mathematics, M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of the Philippines, where he was a member of Upsilon Sigma Phi.[1][2] He completed his dissertation "Marital Fertility and Working Wives in the Philippines: An Economic Analysis" in 1978.[3] He was Visiting Professor at Northern Illinois UniversityinDe Kalb, Illinois and Research Fellow at the prestigious Princeton UniversityinNew Jersey.
| Preceded by | Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority 2001 – 2002 |
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