Profile Overview
Anna Maria Rosario D. Robeniol
Senior Policy FellowProfile
Anna Maria Rosario D. Robeniol joined ERIA as a Senior Policy Fellow. She spent much of her career working on international trade policy, in general, and ASEAN economic integration, in particular. Her career highlights included holding various positions with the Philippine Government and the ASEAN Secretariat.
As Assistant Secretary for Trade Policy and Negotiations for the Department of Trade and Industry, she led the Philippines at the ASEAN Senior Economic Officials Meeting (SEOM) and was the Lead Negotiator for the Philippines-EU FTA and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). She chaired the SEOM during the Philippines’ Chairmanship of ASEAN in 2017.
At the ASEAN Secretariat, she used her technical expertise to substantively contribute to the conclusion of negotiations for key ASEAN agreements, including the AEC Blueprint 2015; ASEAN’s FTAs with China, Japan, Korea, India, and Australia and New Zealand; and the RCEP Agreement.
Expertise
- Public Policy
- Trade Negotiations
- ASEAN, i.e., Economic Integration and External Economic Relations
Education
Master's in Public Management (LKY Fellow) Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy/Harvard Kennedy School National University of Singapore/Harvard University |
Post Graduate Diploma in International Relations and Development Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands |
Bachelor of Arts in Economics University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines |
Experience
| 2021 - 2023 | Advisor to the Secretary General of ASEAN and Deputy Secretary-General for the AEC ASEAN Secretariat |
| 2020 - 2021 | Director for Market Integration ASEAN Secretariat |
| 2018 - 2020 | Assistant Director for the External Economic Relations ASEAN Secretariat |
| 2016 - 2018 | Assistant Secretary for Trade Policy and Negotiations Department of Trade and Industry, Philippines |
| 2015 - 2016 | Trade and Investment Policy Adviser Deloitte Trade-Related Assistance for Development Project (TRADE) by USAID |
| 2002 - 2014 | Various Positions ASEAN Secretariat |
| 1989 – 2002 | Trade & Industry Development Specialist (TIDS)/Senior TIDS Bureau of International Trade Relations Department of Trade and Industry, Philippines |