Dr. Alan T. Ortiz
Vice-President
ALAN T. ORTIZ, Ph.D. is currently the President and Chief Operating Officer of SMC Global Power Holdings Corp. (SMC Power), a wholly-owned affiliate of San Miguel Corporation. Previously, he was President of the National Transmission Corporation, Board Adviser to the PNOC Energy Development Corporation, and Board Member of the Manila Electric Company. Dr. Ortiz also served the Philippine Government as Assistant Director-General of the National Security Council, and Vice-Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of the Development Bank of the Philippines, concurrently as Undersecretary to the President for the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Center (now PPP Center) and Executive Director of the Coordinating Council of the Philippines Assistance Program (CCPAP). Dr. Ortiz also held Chief Executive positions in the Economist Intelligence Unit (Phils.), Edison Mission Energy (Phils.), and Dharmala Corporation (Phils.) and is an incumbent Board Member/Treasurer of the Global Resource for Outsourced Workers (GROW) Incorporated and the Bantayog ng Mga Bayani Foundation. He was also a Fixed Income Associate with Goldman Sachs Company in New York and Tokyo.
Dr. Ortiz obtained his AB Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University; his MA (cand.) in Economics from the University of the Philippines; and his Ph.D. in International Relations (With Distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Multinational Enterprise and Economic Development at Penn’s Wharton School. His doctoral dissertation is entitled: “The Political Economy of Ethnicity: A Case Study of Muslims in the Philippines”. He placed First in the 1981 Philippine Foreign Service Officer (FSO) examination.
Dr. Ortiz is an avid shooter, rescue diver, big biker, and amateur photographer.
Dr. Ortiz obtained his AB Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University; his MA (cand.) in Economics from the University of the Philippines; and his Ph.D. in International Relations (With Distinction) from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Multinational Enterprise and Economic Development at Penn’s Wharton School. His doctoral dissertation is entitled: “The Political Economy of Ethnicity: A Case Study of Muslims in the Philippines”. He placed First in the 1981 Philippine Foreign Service Officer (FSO) examination.
Dr. Ortiz is an avid shooter, rescue diver, big biker, and amateur photographer.