Mr. Ronilo Balbieran is a part-time member of the faculty of both the School of Economics and School of Management of the University of Asia and the Pacific, where he teaches Macroeconomics, Business Economics, and Principles of Forecasting. He is a licensed Urban and Regional Planner, and an infrastructure and logistics specialist, with more than 15 years of strong record in delivering high-impact reforms.

He serves as the Vice President of REID Foundation, where they advised and assisted DPWH in the design, planning, and implementation of the now successful infrastructure convergence programs of DPWH with the Department of Tourism on local tourism roads, with the DTI on roads connecting ecozones and logistics hubs, with the National Defense on military facilities, and with PNP on upgrading police stations.

His team in REID, under another USAID Project, also assisted DPWH in the effort to have the new Right of Way Act legislated, including the appropriate Implementing Rules and Regulations, Agency Manual, and training for Right of Way officers and staff. Because of the new law, the government is now mandated to offer the fair market value as determined by independent licensed property appraisers, including government financial institutions, instead of offering zonal value that is usually rejected by private owners, delaying critical infrastructure.

He was one of the writers of the Philippine Construction industry Roadmap 2020-2030 launched last 2019, and was one of the advisers in the Philippine E-commerce Roadmap 2020-2022.

He is now the Team Leader of the infrastructure component of a new USAID Project, called Delivering Effective Government for Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth (DELIVER), where his team has just transformed the PCAB contractor's license process into a fully digital end-to-end online experience.

He has a master's in industrial economics and finishing his dissertation for his Doctorate in Urban and Regional Planning, with a specialization in transportation planning. He obtained a Certificate in Business Analytics from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Business School, and a Certificate on Digital Transformation in Government from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Dr. Rey is an executive with expertise leading teams in process excellence, transformation, and analytics across diverse businesses. In his stint in the multinational companies he worked for, he was recognized in various company’s global awards for leading and implementing multiple innovative improvement programs and projects that delivered significant value to the organization.

He is the President of the Philippine Society for Quality (PSQ), the Process Excellence & Transformation Lead of a global technology company, and a Faculty Member of the MBA program of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He is also one of the 3 Appointees of the President of the Republic of the Philippines, President Rodrigo R. Duterte, to be part of the Philippine Quality Award Executive Committee.

He also got nominated and elected recently to the International Academy for Quality (IAQ) as an Associate Academician, the 2nd Filipino to be a member of the prestigious IAQ. He is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Certified Learning & Development Professional, and Certified in Six Thinking Hats®. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution Singapore in Business Administration and in Research. He is also a core Member of the Honorary Professional Certification Governance and Quality Council (HPCGQC) for the Operations Management Certification program of the Singapore Institute of Multidisciplinary Professions (SIMP).

He is a recipient of the International Individual Award from the Asia Pacific Quality Organization (APQO) in 2017 and of the Quality Manager of the Year Award, a national quality award, from PSQ in 2015 before he became part of the PSQ Board in 2016. More recently, he received the Young Researcher’s Award 2020 from the Institute of Scholars, Angel Opeña Award from PSQ, 2021 Global Leaders Award (Excellence in Leadership) and 2021 Global Educators Award – Innovation Category from Beyond Books Publication.

He appeared in local and international conferences as a Resource Speaker and as a Keynote Speaker. He was once an Assessor of the Global Performance Excellence Award (GPEA) of APQO and an Assessor of the Philippine Quality Challenge/Award (PQA) of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

He holds a Doctor in Business Administration degree from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He was a scholar of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and he was one of the few scholars of the Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) for the Business Analytics course for IT-BPM under University of the Philippines National Engineering Center. He is currently taking PostDoctoral in Quality Management program at the Centro Escolar University.