Felipe Medalla

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Felipe M. Medalla
9th Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority Concurrently Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning
In office June 30, 1998 – January 20, 2001
President	Joseph Estrada
Preceded by	Cielito Habito
Succeeded by	Dante Canlas
Personal details
Nationality	Filipino
Alma mater	Northwestern University
Occupation	Professor
Profession	Economist

Felipe M. Medalla is a Filipino economist. He served as the 9th Socio-Economic Planning Secretary and Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority under the presidency of Joseph Estrada. He is an incumbent member of the Monetary Board of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines), an entity in-charge of managing Philippine monetary policy.

Medalla served as dean of the University of the Philippines School of Economics. In 1983, he earned his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. His dissertation "Industrial Location in the Philppines" showed the consistence of a combination of Weberian and Loschian ideas in the location of industries in the Philppines.^[1]

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• Angara Center for Law and Economics: Profile of Dr. Felipe Medalla

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