Arthur N. Aguilar

Arthur Aguilar began his forty seven year professional career in merchant banking in Singapore and in project finance in the IFC- World Bank in Washington DC, serving in the Africa and Middle East Department. His career in the private sector included years as President/CEO of large corporations like Victorias Milling Company, National Transmission Corporation, Global Business Power as well as being the EVP of Robinsons Land Corporation. He also managed large government corporations engaged in steel, shipping, palm oil plantation, and as President of the National Transmission Corporation, Chairman of Semirara Coal Corporation and Vice Chairman of Philippine Smelter Corporation or PASAR while serving under President FVR. Under President Cory, he co-authored the original Privatization Law and was instrumental in establishing the Asset Privatization Trust while managing the Marinduque Mining and Menzi Holdings group of companies.

Mr. Aguilar was appointed by President GMA to serve as the founding Chairman of the National Renewable Energy Board which was charged with establishing the operating policies and programs of the Philippine Renewable Energy Law. He is currently engaged in a group that has pioneered the establishment of the country’s first ethanol plant, first utility scale solar energy plant and now the first Biomass energy plant all of which are in the Negros island.

His appointment to President Duterte’s Consultative Committee to Review the 1987 Constitution reflects his capability to understand how both the private sector and the government works under the institutions and policies of the 1987 Constitution. As someone coming from the Visayas, Negros in particular, he one of the most ardent proponents of the establishment of the Federal Republic of the Philippines.

He has two Bachelors degrees, one on Political Science-Economics and on Accounting from De La Salle University in Manila, an MBM from the Asian Institute of Management and a Master’s degree in Public Administration and public policy from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he graduated with a distinction Fellowship Award.