Mario Lamberte
Director of Research

Brief Biography

Mario Lamberte is currently the Director for Research at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). Prior to joining ADBI in June 2007, he worked for the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) as a Research Fellow from 1981 to 1986, Vice-President from 1987 to 1997 and finally, President from 1998 to March 2005. He advised the Philippine Senate on legislative measures pertaining to financial markets and trade policy reforms.

He served as a consultant of several multilateral and bilateral donor agencies in several occasions. In his last two consulting assignments, he acted as a team leader on (i) the ASEAN Secretariat's ASEAN Benchmark Report project that developed a set of regional integration indicators for measuring progress towards the ASEAN Community, and (ii) the Banking and Capital Markets Area of the Economic Modernization through Efficient Reforms and Governance Enhancement (EMERGE) project that provided technical assistance to Philippine financial regulatory agencies. He has authored and co-authored several published research papers and edited several books.

His current areas of interest are regional economic cooperation and integration, financial markets and development economics.

Mr. Lamberte earned his doctoral degree in economics from the University of the Philippines in 1982 and spent his post-doctoral studies in Stanford in 1983-84. He was President of the Philippine Economic Society (PES) in 1993.

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