Mr. Rogelio Quevedo

One of the pioneers in the Philippines in telecoms and IT law, Prof. Roger Quevedo is an economist and government official with a diverse career, spanning academia, private sector, and public service. He is currently Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the Philippines. Prior to this, he served as the Government Corporate Counsel, the statutory legal counsel of all Government-Owned and -Controlled Corporations (GOCC) of the Republic of the Philippines. He graduated from the University of the Philippines (UP) with degrees in Economics and Law, placing 10 th in his class and also in the 1981 Bar Exams. He further obtained a Master of Laws from Louisiana State University and a Doctor of the Science of Jurisprudence from Tulane University in New Orleans. His professional experience includes teaching at the UP College of Law, Ateneo Law School, and Arellano Law Foundation since 1982, specializing in Civil and Commercial Law. He also served as Director of the UP Law Center Bar Review Institute and as the pioneer in Continuing Legal Education. In the private sector, Commissioner Quevedo was the Head of the International Business Division of PLDT-SMART, the leading telecommunications corporation in the Philippines for several decades. His government service also includes roles in the Presidential Management Staff, Office of the Ombudsman, Commission on Immigration and Deportation, COMELEC Advisory Council (CAC), and Commissioner of the Philippine Commission on Good Government. At the local government level, Commissioner Quevedo served as Director of the Youth Development Bureau in the City of Manila. At Present, Commissioner Quevedo’s role in the SEC is Supervising Commissioner of the Financial and Lending Companies and also for Governance, Enforcement, and Auditing.