Event Details
We are excited to bring you one of ANZCHAM's Signature Events, the second Women in Business (WIB) Luncheon wherever you are. We present to you #ChooseToChallenge: Contemporary Filipino Game Changers, which will be held this coming 24 June 2021, Thursday, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. via Zoom.
This event will bring together modern Filipino achievers who are committed to driving positive change in their respective fields: Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo, Chairman of the Build, Build, Build Committee, and sisters Billie and Ann Dumaliang, Managing Trustees of the Masungi Geo Reserve. Join us, as we hear straight from these women who are some of the most creative, committed, and courageous leaders, introducing real change, even during this very challenging time. An exciting round of Q&A with our guests speakers serving as panel will be held after the keynote speeches, and we don't want you to miss the discussions with them.
Speakers
Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo
Chairperson, Build Build Build Committee, DPWH
Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo is the Chairperson of the Build Build Build Committee of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). She is the concurrent chairperson of the Infrastructure Cluster Communications Committee.
Previously, she worked with both United Nations Development Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in their Haiyan Emergency Response and Rehabilitation Programme.
She graduated cum laude at the University of the Philippines Los Baños with a degree of Development Communications, where she garnered the highest General Weighted Average for Development Journalism Majors and received the Faculty Medal for Academic Excellence. She completed her Executive Education in Economic Development in Harvard Kennedy School and her Juris Doctor program at the UP College of Law. She has been awarded Natatanging Iskolar Para sa Bayan and Oblation Statute for the Virtues of Industry and Magnanimity.
She was named by BluPrint as one of 50 ASEAN movers and shakers, by Lifestyle Asia as one of 18 Game Changers and by People Asia as one of 2019's Women of Style and Substance. She maintains a column on the Op-Ed section of Manila Bulletin and Esquire Magazine.
Ann and Billie Dumaliang
Managing Trustees, Masungi Georeserve
Ann Dumaliang is a Managing Trustee of Masungi Georeserve, a conservation project powered by geotourism and education located an hour and a half away from the capital of Metro Manila, Philippines. From protecting a karst landscape, it now aims to expand its efforts to restore some 3000 hectares of denuded land. She is a National Geographic Explorer, a Vanity Fair Changing your Mind Awardee, a member of the Global Shapers Community, and a United Nations Regional Young Champion. Masungi Georeserve has also received accolades for destination stewardship with the World Travel & Tourism Council, sustainable tourism from the United Nations World Tourism Organisation & the Win-Win Gothenburg Sustainability Youth Award. Most recently, they received the top recognition for the Water Changemaker Award from the Global Water Partnership for speaking truth to power, creating youth lead movements, and overcoming inertia for watershed rehabilitation.
Billie Dumaliang is a conservationist working to restore 2,700 hectares of degraded land around the Masungi limestone formations from various threats such as quarrying, land grabbing, and tree cutting. She is the advocacy officer and a managing trustee of the award-winning Masungi Georeserve Foundation in Baras, Rizal, focused on protection, education and research, and sustainable development for the karst ecosystem and unique biodiversity.
