3rd Infra & Energy Talks with Deputy Director Jeffrey Manalo of the PPP center of the Philippines

Jeffrey Manalo,
Deputy Executive Director of Public-Private Partnership Center of the Philippines

Jeffrey Manalo is a career executive and the current Deputy Executive Director of the PPP Center of the Philippines, the government agency tasked to champion and facilitate the Philippine PPP Program. He holds certifications from APMG International as a PPP Professional (Foundation) and a Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Officer. Since he joined the Center in 2011, he has been involved in key facets of the PPP Program including project management, project appraisal, policy and program development, as well as capacity building and knowledge management. He was also given a brief assignment at the Department of Transportation's Office of the Undersecretary for Planning and Project Development in 2014. Jeff holds a degree in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines. He has also completed executive programs on Infrastructure in a Market Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and on Public Policy and Private Sector Development at the National University of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. He has also completed a number of fellowship programs such as the Sustainable Infrastructure Fellowship Program where he was awarded a Master Certificate in Sustainable Infrastructure Development and Finance from the Schulich School of Business at York University (Toronto, Canada); the ASEAN Sustainable Leadership in Infrastructure Program (ASLIP) awarded by the Government of the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office; and the 2023 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Professional Fellows Program (YSEALI-PFP) Batch 1, awarded by the U.S. Department of State.