Dr. Alvin Ang

Dr. Alvin Ang is Senior Researcher of the Center for Strategic and Policy Studies (CSPS) in Brunei Darussalam.   He is Professor (on-leave) at the Department of Economics of Ateneo de Manila University.   He was Chair of the Department from 2022 to 2024 and Director of Ateneo Center for Economic Research and Development (ACERD) from 2016-2021.  He was concurrently an ACERD Senior Fellow providing economic briefings to corporate as well as government clients.  He also is a favorite guest resource person on economic and policy matters on radio and television both in the Philippines and abroad.

His professional experience spans more than three decades as an economic development specialist, investment analyst, corporate planner, program officer, lecturer, and officer in government, private sector and academic research institutions.    He has taught for last 34 years full time at the University of Santo Tomas and Ateneo de Manila University.  He has served as adjunct and visiting faculty at the Asian Institute of Management, Development Academy of the Philippines, Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan and Chiang Mai University in Thailand.  He has been regularly consulted by the Philippine Government and various international development agencies such as the World Bank, International Labour Organization, Asian Development Bank and other UN agencies on policy matters pertaining to the economy, labor and migration, competitiveness, governance reforms and public finance.

He earned his PhD in Applied Economics at Osaka University Graduate School of Economics. as a Research Scholar of the Japanese Government in 2006 and his Master in Public Policy from the National University of Singapore as a scholar of the Singaporean government in 1999.  He is an alumnus of University of Santo Tomas, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1989.  He was the President of the Philippine Economic Society in 2013 where he is a lifetime member.

He is a Fellow of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California at Irvine and a Fulbright Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.

He is an advocate on financial literacy and had taught on this topic in many circles within the Philippines and abroad especially for the Overseas Filipino Workers.