Dr. Dante B. Canlas
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Dr. Dante B. Canlas is a professor emeritus at the University of the Philippines (UP)-School of Economics. He holds a Bachelor in Mathematics degree from UP, a Masters of Arts in Economics, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from the same university. He was deputy director-general of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) from 1992 to 1998 and director-general and socioeconomic planning secretary from 2001 to 2002. He also served as the Asian Development Bank executive director for Kazakhstan, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Pakistan, and the Philippines from 2003 to 2004.
His research interests include monetary economics, macroeconomics, and labor economics.