Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 15) — Lisa Grace Bersales was sworn in as the new executive director for the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) on Friday.
A statement from the agency said Bersales was sworn in by Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan at the National Economic and Development Authority head office in Pasig City. She will serve concurrently as undersecretary for population and development or POPDEV.
Bersales has decades of experience as a researcher and professor at the University of the Philippines where she was dean and director of Graduate Studies in the School of Statistics.
She also led the implementation of the Philippine Statistics Act of 2013 by setting up the Philippine Statistics Authority in 2014.
