Cesar Purisima is a Senior Fellow of Milken Institute, a global non-profit, non-partisan think tank. He is a founding partner at IKHLAS Capital, an ASEAN private equity platform.He currently serves on the boards of the AIA Group, Ayala Land, Universal Robina Corporation, Jollibee Foods Corporation, Bank of the Philippine Islands, BPI Capital Corporation, Unistar Credit & Finance Corporation, and the International School of Manila. He is a member of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation’s Global Advisory Council, ABS-CBN Corporation’s Board of Advisors, and Singapore Management University’s International Advisory Council in the Philippines. He is also an executive-in-residence at the Asian Institute of Management and member of Bloomberg Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health. From 2010 to 2016, Purisima was the Secretary of Finance of the Philippines and the Chair of Economic Development Cluster of the President’s Cabinet. He briefly served as Finance Secretary in 2005 and Trade and Industry Secretary from 2004 to 2005. Prior to his stints in the government service, he was the Chairman & Country Managing Partner of the Philippines' largest professional services firm SGV & Co., and was a member of the Global Executive Board and Global Practice Council of Ernst & Young.