Dr. Benjamin E. Diokno is the current Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). Prior to his appointment, he served as Budget Secretary in three different administrations. As Governor, he does not only pursue the promotion of the BSP mandates of price stability, financial stability, and an efficient payments and settlements system; but also endeavors to bring central banking closer to the people. To achieve his twin goals of shifting 50% of retail payment transactions to digital form and achieving 70% transaction account ownership among adult Filipinos, he is a champion of digital payments and financial inclusion. He is also a strong advocate of the Philippine ID System. His policy expertise and research contribution extend to various areas of public economics, such as the structure and scope of government, tax policies, and reforms, public expenditure management analysis, fiscal decentralization, national budget, and public debt among other topics. He has extensive experience in implementing reforms in the public sector, having also served as Budget Undersecretary from 1986 to 1991 and Budget Secretary from 1998 to 2001. He finished his Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines (1968) and earned his Master’s Degree in Public Administration (1970) and Economics (1974) from the same university. He also holds a Master of Arts in Political Economy (1976) from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and a Ph.D. in Economics (1981) from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, USA.