The National Economic and Development Authority (Filipino: Pambansang Pangasiwaan sa Kabuhayan at Pagpapaunlad), abbreviated asNEDA, is an independent cabinet-level agency of the Philippine government responsible for economic development and planning. It is headed by the President of the Philippines as chairman of the NEDA board, with the Secretary of Socio-Economic Planning, concurrently NEDA Director-General, as vice-chairman. A number of Cabinet members, the Governor of the Central Bank, the Chairman of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, the Governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, the Chairman of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology, the Chairman of the Subic-Clark Area Development Corporation, and the National President of the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines are members of the NEDA Board.
The present Director-General is Dr. Arsenio Balisacan of the University of the Philippines School of Economics.
History
The NEDA was established in 1973 with Dr. Gerardo Sicat as its first director general. With the exception of Sicat, the Prime Minister of the Philippines was usually the head of the agency before the First People Power Revolution. President Corazon C. Aquino re-organized the NEDA into its present form (see below) and appointed Winnie Monsod as its first director-general after EDSA I
List of NEDA Director-Generals
Name | Term Began | Term Ended | President | Third Republic of the Philippines | Sixto K. Roxas III | 1963 (NEC) | 1964 (NEC) | Diosdado Macapagal | Hilarion M. Hinares | 1965 (NEC) | | Ferdinand Marcos | Fourth Republic of the Philippines | Gerardo Sicat | 1970-1973 (NEC), 1973 (NEDA) | 1981 (NEDA) | Ferdinand Marcos | Placido Mapa, Jr. | 1970 (NEC), 1981 (NEDA) | 1983 (NEDA) | Ferdinand Marcos | Cesar Virata[2] | 1983 | | Ferdinand Marcos | Vicente Valdepeñas, Jr. | 1983 | 1986 | Ferdinand Marcos | Fifth