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Amina
Rasul
Amina
Rasul-Bernardo is the Lead Convenor of the Philippine
Council for Islam and Democracy. She is a Senior Research
Fellow with the Asian Institute of Management Policy
Center .
She was a member of the Philippine Cabinet under former
President Fidel V. Ramos, as Presidential Advisor on
Youth Affairs. Appointed concurrently as the first Chair
of the National Youth Commission, she was responsible
for organizing the new agency and for the formulation
and implementation of the Philippine Medium-Term Youth
Development Plan.
Ms. Rasul-Bernardo has a distinguished record in the field of business and finance.
She was Director of the Philippine National Oil Corporation, the Development
Bank of the Philippines, and Founding Director of the Local Government Guarantee
Corporation.
She has served as an education advisor to the Growth
with Equity in Mindanao Program, a five-year development-assistance project funded
by United States Agency for International Development. She has also served as
consultant of the World Bank, Arthur-Andersen - Philippines, ILO, among others.
She was the first Filipino invited as Senior Fellow at the US Institute of Peace
(2001-2002), Washington DC.
She is a founding member of Bantay Dagat (Watch the Seas) Movement, an NGO which
supports protection of the seas and coastal resource management. She has been
responsible for the production of a 30-minute cartoon designed to teach young
people about the symbiosis between the health of the seas and productivity of
fish industry. She has served on the board of the National Greening Movement.
She is also a founding member of the Muslim Professional and Business Women Association
of the Philippines. She has worked to develop mutual-guarantee associations among
Muslim and indigenous women to finance cottage enterprises and small businesses.
A founding member of the Magbassa Kita Foundation, Ms. Rasul-Bernardo served
as the first chief operating officer, responsible for raising $2 million to support
the foundation's literacy program for Muslim and indigenous communities. The
recipient of numerous awards for her public service accomplishments and peace-building
efforts, she earned a master's degree in business management from the Asian Institute
of Management in the Philippines and a Master of Public Administration from the
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Amina can be reached at amina@sea-changepartners.com
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