{"id":106769,"date":"2017-07-04T02:53:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T06:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=106769"},"modified":"2017-07-04T02:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T06:53:36","slug":"dof-taps-dti-marketing-expert-for-2018-adb-meeting-in-manila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/07\/04\/dof-taps-dti-marketing-expert-for-2018-adb-meeting-in-manila\/","title":{"rendered":"DOF taps DTI marketing expert for 2018 ADB meeting in Manila"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-content\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_104752\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104752\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Finance-Secretary-Carlos-Dominguez-III.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104752\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Finance-Secretary-Carlos-Dominguez-III.jpg\" alt=\"Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III. (KING RODRIGUEZ\/ Presidential Photo)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Finance-Secretary-Carlos-Dominguez-III.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Finance-Secretary-Carlos-Dominguez-III-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III. (KING RODRIGUEZ\/ Presidential Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, July 4 &#8212; A marketing and communications expert at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) with a sterling record in handling major tourism projects in Mindanao is working closely with the Department of Finance (DOF) in handling the preparations for the 2018 annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board of Governors in Manila May next year.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has tapped DTI Assistant Secretary Arturo Boncato Jr. as a key resource person of the DOF for Manila\u2019s hosting of the 51st Annual Meeting of the ADB Board of Governors on May 3-6, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Boncato, who heads the DTI\u2019s Competitiveness and Ease of Doing Business Group, was formerly Assistant Secretary of the Department of Tourism in the Aquino administration in charge of handling special projects for Mindanao, such as the Philippine Halal Tourism Project. He was at that time also the tourism department\u2019s alternate spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>He had also chaired the Brunei, Indonesia Malaysia, the Philippines-East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) Tourism Cluster and was Representative to the Bangsamoro Transition Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Boncato is currently the supervising executive of the DTI\u2019s Competitiveness Bureau, E-Commerce, and BIMP-EAGA teams.<\/p>\n<p>A former entrepreneur and hotelier, Boncato holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mass Communications from the University of the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Dominguez chairs the ADB Board of Governors.(DOF-PR)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, July 4 &#8212; A marketing and communications expert at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) with a sterling &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":104752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}