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Mr. McJill Bryant Fernandez

Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission Philippines · Government
Mr. McJill Bryant Fernandez
Mr. McJill Bryant Fernandez
Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission Philippines · Government
40th ISAR (session II)

Speaking

18 October 2023
12:00–15:00 · Asia/Dubai
International Sustainable Finance Regulation Conference

Raising the bar: Sustainable finance regulations for a changing world

Speaking

18 October 2023
15:30–17:30 · Asia/Dubai

Commissioner Fernandez supervises the lead unit of the SEC Philippines on the formulation of corporate governance policies and regulations, and the implementation of sustainability reporting across entities in the Philippine corporate sector. His team is currently revising the domestic sustainability reporting guidelines, taking into consideration recent developments in the standards and upon consultation with stakeholders and ASEAN peers. He chairs the committee handling sustainability-related initiatives within the Commission, and that committee which coordinates with the Houses of Congress on the SEC’s legislative agenda. 

He has served as Deputy Executive Secretary in the Office of the President, where he crafted issuances and policy directives of the President, evaluated executive agreements and financial instruments, addressed governance concerns of national government agencies and state-owned enterprises, and concurrently sat in interagency bodies related to the national budget, climate change, infrastructure projects, and economic development.   

Government