WEBINAR: SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING OVERVIEW

Dr. Rufo R. Mendoza,
Former VIce Chair at Board of Accountancy

Rufo R. Mendoza is a Certified Public Accountant in the Philippines. He has a master’s degree in development management and a Ph.D. in Community Development and Agribusiness Management both from the University of the Philippines Los Baños. He was an Associate Professor at the Asian Institute of Management, where he was also the Chair of the Finance and Accounting Department and the Program Director of the Executive Master in Development Management, major in Public Finance. He had more than 20 years of teaching and administrative experience in the graduate school of leading universities in the Philippines: Academic Program Manager, Lecturer, and Head of Public Finance Cluster at the Ateneo de Manila University's School of Government (2005-2011); Professorial Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at the UP Open University (2005-2013); Senior Lecturer at the University of Philippine Los Banos (1996-2003); and Graduate school professor at De La Salle Lipa (1996-2007). He is currently a Full Professor and the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the First Asia Institute of Technology and Humanities. He was Senior Consultant in Public Financial Management (PFM) at the European Commission Technical Assistance for the Health Sector Policy Support Program (2008-2010); PFM Advisor at the Provincial Road Management Facility of the Australian Agency for International Development (2008-2012); and PFM Consultant in the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNDP, and USAID. He was Consultant at the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission, Department of Health, Department of Budget and Management, and Department of Finance and in a number of local government units. As a CPA, he was Vice-Chair (2011-2014) and Member (2007-2011) of the Professional Regulatory Board of Accountancy, the highest body in the Accountancy profession and Chair of the Continuing Professional Development Council (2009-2014). For three years (2011-2014), he was the country’s delegate to the ASEAN Meetings of Professional Regulatory Authorities for the Mutual Recognition Arrangement on Accountancy Services and the country's delegate to the APEC Senior Officials Meeting in Accounting Services in the USA. He was a two-time national awardee as Outstanding CPA in Professional Development in 2008 and Outstanding CPA in Government Service in 2010 from the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He also received the 2010 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of the Philippines Los Baños and the 2008 Award for Natatanging Lipeño as an outstanding citizen from the City Government of Lipa.