Tony Lambino is President and Trustee of Ayala Foundation, the social development arm of the Ayala Group of Companies. He was previously Managing Director for Strategic Communication, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (the Philippine central bank) and Assistant Secretary of Finance, Republic of the Philippines, where he led stakeholder engagement initiatives in support of the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program and related socioeconomic reforms.He was also Head of Public Policy at Ayala Corporation where he worked on strengthening the contribution of private enterprise to national development. As Head of Communication at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, he led efforts in communicating the contributions of agricultural research to reducing hunger in the world’s poorest areas. At the World Bank in Washington, D.C., he was a Governance Specialist, helping reformers in Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe enhance their effectiveness as change agents and anchored research efforts on the communication dimensions of anti-corruption, accountability, and citizen participation.Tony holds graduate degrees in Political Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar and Osmeña Fellow. Tony also graduated with a Master in National Security Administration, with honors, from the National Defense College of the Philippines.