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Gerardo Sicat

He serves as a member of the board of director of the U.P. Foundation, a financial arm supporting the activities of the University of the Philippines and of the Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies at the De La Salle University.

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At the then newly founded (1965) University of the Philippines School of Economics, he blended teaching and administrative duties with research.

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A graduate of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he founded the Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS), currently an attached agency to NEDA, and contested in the 1999 selection of the University of the Philippines president together with prominent figures such as former senator Leticia Ramos-Shahani and sociologist Ledivina V. Cariño but ultimately lost to political scientist Francisco Nemenzo, Jr.

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Introducing the Indonesian edition of his book, Professor Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, former dean of the faculty of Economics of the University of Indonesia, wrote in the preface: “It is my hope that it will become an alternative to textbooks currently available, including the translations of works from the world’s leading economists, whose writings are relevant to a different context from that of Indonesia.”

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Awarded a generous Rockefeller Foundation scholarship in support of the faculty development program of the University of the Philippines School of Economics in 1959, he finished his doctorate in economics studies in record time at the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963.

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