Maria Gracia P. Tan
Independent Director
Years Old
Atty. Tan, 68, Filipino, is an independent director of the Company. She is likewise the Lead Independent Director of Premium Leisure Corp. and Pacific Online Systems Corporation. She is a director of Trifels, Inc., She is currently a Trustee of the Justice George A. Malcolm Foundation, Inc., and Philippine Institute of Construction Arbitrator and Mediators. She is also a member of the Tax Faculty of the Philippine Judicial Academy. She is also an arbitrator for the Philippine Center for Dispute Resolution, Inc., a professional lecturer of the University of the Philippines College of Law, a member of the Society of Construction Law Philippines, Dispute Resolution Board Foundation, Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution, International Tax Specialist Group, Philippine Institute of Arbitrators.
Atty. Tan is the former Chairperson of the Commission on Audit, Undersecretary of Finance and Commissioner of the Presidential Commission on Good Government. She served as Chairman of the United Nations Independent Audit Advisory Committee, the first Filipino to have been elected to this 5-member Committee. She is also a professor at the University of the Philippines for Mandatory Continuing Legal Education.
Backed by four decades of professional work in the Philippines and abroad as a private law and accounting practitioner, government official, arbitrator and international consultant. She is an expert in the fields of legal, finance, audit, governance, dispute resolution and administration.
She graduated from the University of the Philippines in 1976 with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Accountancy and in 1981 with Bachelor of Laws. In 1987, she obtained her Master of Laws (Tax) from the New York University. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
DESIGNATION
- Independent Director
- Lead Independent Director (beginning May 31, 2024)
- Chairperson, Risk Oversight Committee
- Member, Audit Committee
- Member, Corporate Governance Committee
- Member, Related Party Transactions Committee
DATE OF FIRST ELECTION: |
June 2021 |