ARTA - Key Persons
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- Chief Administrative Officer
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- Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Officer - in - Charge, Director
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- Chief Administrative Officer
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- Officer - in - Charge, Division Chief
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- Chief Administrative Officer
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- Chief Administrative Officer
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Secretary
Atty. Ernesto V. Perez, CPA was appointed as the Director General of the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA), an agency under the Office of the President created by the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act of 2018 (R.A. 11032), on 11 November 2022. He took his oath of office on 14 November 2022 and assumed as head of the agency on the same day.
He became the first appointed official and Deputy Director General oftheARTA in December 2018, spearheading the operationalization of the agency and its major programs and initiatives. DG Perez also assumed, in a concurrent capacity,as the agency's OIC-Director General from December 18, 2018 to July 9, 2019 (until the appointment of former DG Jeremiah Belgica); and from 8 June 2022 until his appointment as Director General.
Prior to ARTA, he wasthe Assistan tSecretary of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) - Consumer Protection Group. He served in a concurrent capacity as OIC-Director of the Bureau of Philippine Standards where he promulgated the development of 108 new standards and revision of 151 Philippine National Standards aligned with the international standards ofISO/IEC and good regulatory practices of the World Trade Organization. He likewise served as Chairperson of the DTI-Steel Task Force where he led the investigation of the biggest steel importation in the country.
DG Perez has also been a Professional Lecturer for programs in Doctor and Master in Public Administration at the Don Honorio Ventura State University in Pampanga since August 2021. Moreover, he had been a litigation lawyer for almost thirty (30) years prior to joining government service under the Duterte Administration.
DG Perez obtained hislaw degree from theAteneo Law School in 1986 and was among the top 15 in the 1986 bar exams. He has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and majored in Accountancy in 1980 from the University of the Philippines - Visayas and passed the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Board examination in the same year.
He is an active Rotary Club member (Past President, Rotary Club of Makati Central, 2014-2015) and served asthe Philippines' Coordinator of the Rotarian Action Group against Slavery, a non-government organization based in the United Kingdom. He serves as a volunteer Legal Consultant of the Manila-based OFW-ATOM (Anti-Slavery Movement).
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- Chief Administrative Officer / General Services Division
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- Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
Director Grace Fernandez has spent 29 years in government service, from the Philippine Senate, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Board of Investments (BOI), and very recently, the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA).
Director Fernandez's career mostly covered the field of Human Resource Management where Training and Development was her core for 17 years in DTI by implementing the ProActive Programs for Competitiveness. In BOI she held the position of Officer-in-Charge of the Human Resource Development Division where she actively pursued OD activities, particularly the Strategic Performance Management System and ISO Certification. Upon her return to DTI, she headed the Division involved in the ease of doing business reform initiatives focused on pushing the competitiveness ranking of the Philippines in the annual World Bank Doing Business Report.
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- Officer - in - Charge, Director IV / Finance Division
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- Chief Administrative Officer
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- Officer - in - Charge, Division Chief
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- Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
Job Titles:
- Officer - in - Charge, Division Chief
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- Officer - in - Charge, Division Chief
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- Chief Administrative Officer
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- Chief Administrative Officer
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- Officer - in - Charge, Chief Administrative Officer
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- Officer - in - Charge, Director IV
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- Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
Director Rabindranath P. Quilala is the incumbent Director IV of the Finance and Administrative Office (FAO) of the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA). He was appointed by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on 8 January 8 2021 and assumed office on 18 January 2021. Likewise, he was concurrently designated as the Deputy Head of the Special Projects and Management Office (SPMO) and Liaison Officer for Legislative & LGU Affairs of ARTA.
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- Chief Administrative Officer
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- Deputy Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
- President
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- Deputy Director
- Member of the Executive Committee
Engr. Gerald Divinagracia is the new Undersecretary for Operations. He has 27 years of experience in the Information and Communications Technology industry, focusing on enterprise business process transformations.
Usec. Divinagracia served as a consultant in various organizational process transformation initiatives in the public and private sector. He previously worked with ARTA on the implementation of reforms in the telecommunications sector and integration of select government agencies in the Philippine Business Hub.
He earned his Master's Degree of Business Process Management (BPM) at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane-Australia, as an Australia Awards Scholar and graduated with high distinction.
As Undersecretary for Operations, he will oversee the Compliance Monitoring and Evaluation Office (CMEO) and the Better Regulations Office (BRO). CMEO leads the monitoring of mandatory compliances under the Ease of Doing Business Law while BRO heads the review of government regulations to avoid undue burden to stakeholders.
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- Officer - in - Charge, Director IV