State think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies has recently announced the appointment of Dr. Adoracion Navarro, as the new Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the Office of the Vice President. She takes over from Dr. Rafaelita Aldaba who is on secondment to the Department of Trade and Industry as Assistant Secretary for Industry Development.
In 2013, Navarro was recognized as one of the 40 Under 40 Leaders in International Development by DevEx, the world`s largest international development, global health, and humanitarian aid community. Navarro was cited by DevEx for concept papers she wrote calling for a “more logical allocation of grants and subsidies in the water supply and sanitation sector and the use of prioritization criteria based on poverty, incidence of water-borne diseases and water service coverage.” In addition, a paper she wrote in 2011 defined the tourism-logistics-transportation convergence areas. She argued for the use of these defined areas in harmonizing national and secondary road transport investments.
Navarro is a seasoned policy researcher in the analysis of infrastructure policies and projects with more than 17 years of research work focused on the water, energy, transportation and communications sectors. Dr. Navarro is concurrently a senior research fellow at PIDS conducting macroeconomic and infrastructure policy studies. Her expertise is sought after by other institutions in the country by chairing various committees namely: the Review, Evaluation and Dissemination Committee of the Philippine APEC Study Center Network, a network of Philippine research institutes focused on APEC studies and the Task Force to Study Ways to Reduce the Price of Electricity, a multi-sectoral task force set up by the Department of Energy.
Navarro obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of the Philippines-Diliman through scholarship grants from the Philippine Center for Economic Development and the UP Graduate Trust Fund and her Master of Public Administration (Economic Policy Management) from Columbia University-New York through a World Bank scholarship.
In 2013, Navarro was recognized as one of the 40 Under 40 Leaders in International Development by DevEx, the world`s largest international development, global health, and humanitarian aid community. Navarro was cited by DevEx for concept papers she wrote calling for a “more logical allocation of grants and subsidies in the water supply and sanitation sector and the use of prioritization criteria based on poverty, incidence of water-borne diseases and water service coverage.” In addition, a paper she wrote in 2011 defined the tourism-logistics-transportation convergence areas. She argued for the use of these defined areas in harmonizing national and secondary road transport investments.
Navarro is a seasoned policy researcher in the analysis of infrastructure policies and projects with more than 17 years of research work focused on the water, energy, transportation and communications sectors. Dr. Navarro is concurrently a senior research fellow at PIDS conducting macroeconomic and infrastructure policy studies. Her expertise is sought after by other institutions in the country by chairing various committees namely: the Review, Evaluation and Dissemination Committee of the Philippine APEC Study Center Network, a network of Philippine research institutes focused on APEC studies and the Task Force to Study Ways to Reduce the Price of Electricity, a multi-sectoral task force set up by the Department of Energy.
Navarro obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of the Philippines-Diliman through scholarship grants from the Philippine Center for Economic Development and the UP Graduate Trust Fund and her Master of Public Administration (Economic Policy Management) from Columbia University-New York through a World Bank scholarship.
