1. Ernesto del Mar Pernia was born on December 30,1943 and is a Filipino economist, writer and professor emeritus at the University of the Philippines School of Economics.
10 Facts About Ernesto Pernia
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Ernesto Pernia formerly served as Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority and Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning under the Duterte administration from 2016 to 2020.
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Ernesto Pernia was then awarded a Ford Fellowship to University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained his Ph.
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Ernesto Pernia completed his dissertation, "Urbanization, population growth, and development in the Philippines", under the supervision of Kingsley Davis and Michael Wiseman in 1976.
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Ernesto Pernia worked in the US after completing his doctorate degree at UC Berkeley.
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Ernesto Pernia was a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz while taking up a research grant at the Smithsonian Institution.
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Ernesto Pernia was a fellow of the East-West Population Institute in Honolulu.
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Ernesto Pernia then joined the Asian Development Bank in 1986.
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Ernesto Pernia is a recipient of the "Outstanding Young Scientist Award for Social Science" from the National Academy of Science and Technology in 1980.
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In June 2016, Ernesto Pernia was appointed by President Duterte as the Director-General of NEDA, making him the Socioeconomic Planning Secretary and a member of the Cabinet.