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Speakers
Ronald Mendoza
Senior Economist at Ateneo Policy Center
Ronald U. Mendoza, PhD is a governance and institutional reforms specialist with over 25
years of experience in development policy and public administration reforms. He is presently a
Senior Economist with the Ateneo Policy Center and a Member of the United Nations
Committee of the Experts on Public Administration (UN-CEPA). Recently, Mendoza served as
Regional Director for Southeast Asia at Idinsight, a global advisory, data analytics, and research
organization seeking to improve lives with the use of data and evidence. Prior to joining
IDInsight, Ron served as Dean and Professor with the Ateneo de Manila University, School of
Government. Between August 2020 and July 2022 he also served as Chief of Party of
PARTICIPATE, a three year USAID project focused on supporting citizens’ participation in
governance and strengthening democratic and governance institutions. From 2011 to 2015, he
was an Associate Professor of Economics at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), and the
Executive Director of the AIM Rizalino S. Navarro Policy Center for Competitiveness. His
research background includes work with UNICEF, UNDP, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,
the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and several Manila-based non-governmental
organizations. In early 2021, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC)
approved Mendoza’s appointment to serve with the 24-person UN Committee of the Experts on
Public Administration (CEPA 2021-2025). And in 2022 and 2023, Mendoza was listed among
the Philippines’ top 100 scientists in the AD Scientific Index based on the total number of
citations in the last 5 years.
Calla Wiemer
President at American Committee on Asian Economic Studies
Calla Wiemer is an American economist who spent the first two decades of her career specializing on China before expanding her purview to East Asia broadly for the next two decades. She now keeps busy teaching her textbook, Macroeconomics for Emerging East Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2022), to bright young students at Ateneo de Manila University and providing input on research at the Bankgo Sentral ng Pilipinas. In addition, as President of the American Committee on Asian Economic Studies, she moderates the Asia Economics Blog. On Sunday mornings, she likes to ride her bike out Marcos Highway to Boso-Boso Highlands.