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Dr. Cielo Magno is an Associate Professor of the University of the Philippines’ School of Economics. She has more than twenty years of experience in research and policy work with the public and the private sector including local and international agencies. Her research and interests focus on public finance, institutional economics, environmental economics, and industry regulation.

Dr. Magno has broad experience working with governments, the private sector, and the civil society. She was a member of the international board of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) and an advisory committee member of the CONNEX Global Initiative. She also sat on the board of various civil society organizations.

She obtained her Master’s degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines, School of Economics and a PhD in Law and Public Policy from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts as a Fulbright scholar.

She served as Undersecretary at the Department of Finance where she mandaged the Fiscal Policy and Monitoring Group which is responsible for recommending fiscal policies, formulating tax reform proposals, as well as forecasting and programming national government revenues.