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Cielo Magno[edit][edit]

Prof. Cielo Magno
Prof. Cielo Magno's Supply and Demand post on Facebook

Cielo Magno is a former Undersecretary of the Department of Finance. She served as the Undersecretary for the Fiscal Policy and Monitoring Group from August 2022 to September 04, 2023. She also served as the Chairperson of the Philippine Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) Technical Committee, and the Inter-Agency Investment Promotion Coordination Committee (IICC) Technical Committee.[1] She resigned from her post after she criticized Executive Order No. 39 of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. which imposed the price ceiling on rice prices. She posted the basic graph of supply and demand curve on her Facebook page with the line showing how the price cap can lead to rice supply shortages and may negatively affect farmers and consumers.[2] Her post earned the ire of Malacanang with Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin issuing a statement saying that "she clearly does not support the administration and its programs for nation-building."[3] Her controversial post earned her the reputation "for speaking her mind" especially on careless policies that may significantly affect the people's welfare.[4]

Dr. Cielo Magno is a tenured Associate Professor in the University of the Philippines before she was seconded to the Department of Finance to serve as Undersecretary under the leadership of Secretary Benjamin Diokno. [1] She was also selected to represent the civil society in the Global Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership.[5]

Early life and education[edit][edit]

Cielo Magno was born in Gapan City, Nueva Ecija Philippines. Her family resides in San Isidro, Nueva Ecija. She is a product of public education having attended Gapan North Central School where she graduated as class valedictorian. She completed her high school at Divina Pastora College where is also graduated as class valedictorian. Cielo entered the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1994. She graduated from the UP School of Economics with degrees in Bachelor of Science in Business Economics and a Masters in Economics.

While a student at the University of the Philippines Diliman, she was elected as the Chairperson of the University Student Council. She was only the third woman to be elected Chair since the University Student Council was founded in 1913. She was also a member of the world renowned UP Concert Chorus.

In 2005, Cielo was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship for a PhD in Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts.

Career[edit][edit]

Dr. Cielo Magno is currently an Associate Professor in the University of the Philippines’ School of Economics. She has more than twenty years of experience in research and policy work with the public and the private sector including local and international agencies. Her research and interests focus on public finance; law, health, institutional, and resource economics; and industry regulation. Her publications include discussions on health, pharmaceutical competition and access to medicine,[6][7] [8][9] corruption,[10] foreign investments,[11] decentralization and local public finance,[12][13][14] transportation policy,[15] energy and mining,[16][17] civic space and human rights,[10][18] natural resources, economic and social development,[19] [20] mental health and spirituality,[21] and law.[22]

Prof. Cielo has broad experience working with governments, the private sector, and the civil society. She served as a member of the international board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative for seven years. During her tenure as a board member, the EITI Standard has evolved to include disclosures on social and environmental impacts of extractive industries, contracts, beneficial ownership and free prior and informed consent on top of the financial disclosure required by the transparency and accountability initiative.[23] She also sat on the board of various civil society organizations. She served as the National Coordinator of Bantay Kita/Publish What You Pay Philippines, the coalition of civil society organizations calling for transparency and accountability in the mining and oil and gas sector from 2012 to 2016 and helped found the Philippine EITI.[24]

Prof. Cielo has been a champion of anti-corruption initiatives in and outside government.[25][26][27]

Reference section[edit][edit]

  1. ^ a b "Cielo Magno profile".
  2. ^ GMA Integrated News (September 12, 2023). "Cielo Magno says she had to speak up vs. rice price cap".
  3. ^ Madarang, Catalina Ricci S. (September 8, 2023). "Cielo Magno's exit: A closer look at Facebook post that sparked her DOF departure".
  4. ^ "When Governments Carelessly Risk a Food Crisis". Bloomberg.com. 2023-09-18. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  5. ^ "2024 Civil Society Steering Committee Selection". Open Government Partnership. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  6. ^ Magno, Cielo; Guzman, Ricardo Rafael S. (June 2019). "Drug price sensitivity among physicians in a developing healthcare system: Evidence from the Philippine market for statins and beta blockers". Economic Analysis and Policy. 62: 268–279. doi:10.1016/j.eap.2019.04.005.
  7. ^ Magno-Gatmaytan, Maria Cielo (2013). Influencing physician prescribing behavior: direct-to-consumer advertising and the demand for me-too drugs (Thesis). Northeastern University. doi:10.17760/d20003132.
  8. ^ "PCC Discussion Paper 2022-01: Pharmaceutical Competition in the Philippines - Philippine Competition Commission". www.phcc.gov.ph. 2022-11-21. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  9. ^ Magno-Gatmaytan, Maria Cielo (2013). "Influencing physician prescribing behavior: direct-to-consumer advertising and the demand for me-too drugs". doi:10.17760/d20003132. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ a b Magno, Cielo; Gatmaytan, Dante (November 2017). "Corruption and civic space: Contextual factors influencing EITI compliance". The Extractive Industries and Society. 4 (4): 806–815. doi:10.1016/j.exis.2017.07.003.
  11. ^ "Role of Institutions, Investment Policies, and Macroeconomic Conditions on Attracting Foreign Investments". University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  12. ^ ""DECENTRALIZATION, DIGITALIZATION, AND DEVELOPMENT - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  13. ^ Sta Maria, Gladys; et al. "Sourcebook on Local Public Finance" (PDF).
  14. ^ Magno, Cielo (2001). "The Devolution of Agricultural and Health Services, Chapter, Social Watch Philippines 2001 Report" (PDF).
  15. ^ Magno, C; et al. (2021). "Transportation policy potholes: analyzing Metro Manila's COVID-19 response". The Philippine Review of Economics. 58 (1&2): 293=312.
  16. ^ Magno, Cielo D.; Guzman, Ricardo Rafael S. (2021-09-01). "Energy and the viability of downstream integration: Cross-country evidence from the copper industry". The Extractive Industries and Society. 8 (3): 100947. doi:10.1016/j.exis.2021.100947. ISSN 2214-790X.
  17. ^ Magno, Cielo; Guzman, Ricardo Rafael S. (2019-09-19). "Evaluating the Large-Scale Mining Fiscal Regime in the Philippines". Philippine Political Science Journal. 40 (1–2): 32–68. doi:10.1163/2165025X-12340002. ISSN 0115-4451.
  18. ^ Magno, Cielo (2013). "Free and Prior Informed Consent in the Philippines: Past and Prospects".
  19. ^ Magno, Cielo (2016). Extractive industries and the financing of child-inclusive social development in the Philippines: Trends and policy frameworks (Report). UNRISD Working Paper.
  20. ^ Parks, Tom; et al. (2013). "Community-Based development in Conflict-Affected Areas in the Philippines".
  21. ^ Amaro, Hortensia; Magno-Gatmaytan, Cielo; Meléndez, Michael; Cortés, Dharma E.; Arevalo, Sandra; Margolin, Arthur (April 2010). "Addiction Treatment Intervention: An Uncontrolled Prospective Pilot Study of Spiritual Self-Schema Therapy with Latina Women". Substance Abuse. 31 (2): 117–125. doi:10.1080/08897071003641602. ISSN 0889-7077.
  22. ^ Gatmaytan, Dante B.; Magno, Cielo (January 2011). "Averting Diversity: A Review of Nominations and Appointments to the Philippine Supreme Court (1988-2008)". Asian Journal of Comparative Law. 6: 1–18. doi:10.1017/S2194607800000478. ISSN 2194-6078.
  23. ^ "EITI Standard 2023". EITI. 2023-06-04. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  24. ^ "Philippine and UK governments, Bantay Kita partner to boost the country's EITI bid". GOV.UK. 2013-06-14. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  25. ^ "Faces of Open Government: Cielo Magno". Open Government Partnership. 2023-07-17. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  26. ^ Guanzon, Magno launch anti corruption movement "Wag Kang KuCorrupt". Retrieved 2024-04-21 – via www.youtube.com.
  27. ^ LatteCreative; Spriet-Mezoued, Zoe (2015-03-27). "Cielo Magno". Publish What You Pay. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
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