1. Janet Braganza Abuel was born on March 13,1971 and is a Filipino lawyer, accountant and public servant who, from March to August 2019, served as acting secretary of the Department of Budget and Management in the Duterte administration following the appointment of former-Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
Janet Abuel went to Dominican School in Dagupan for her elementary and secondary schooling.
Janet Abuel passed the certified public accountant examinations in 1991.
Janet Abuel was awarded a certificate of completion in 2014 from the John F Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University where she attended the Executive Education Program on Driving Government Performance.
Janet Abuel holds a Master of Laws degree from University of Sydney in Australia.
Janet Abuel first started her career as a new accounts clerk at the Makati branch of BPI Family Bank from 1993 to 1994.
Janet Abuel was a part-time instructor at the University of the Cordilleras College of Law from 1999 to 2010 and authored the handbook Bar Review Methods and Techniques, 2003 Edition.
Janet Abuel started working at the DBM in 1996 as a budget analyst of the department's Cordillera Administrative Region office in Baguio.
Janet Abuel was personally offered the position by then-DBM Secretary Benjamin Diokno after he learned that she had topped the bar.
Janet Abuel then became the regional director, in 2002, of DBM's Ilocos Region office in San Fernando, La Union.