Janet Abuel
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March 13, 1971
Janet Abuel | |
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| Secretary of Budget and Management Officer in Charge | |
| In office March 5, 2019 – August 5, 2019 | |
| President | Rodrigo Duterte |
| Preceded by | Benjamin Diokno |
| Succeeded by | Wendel Avisado |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Janet Braganza Abuel March 13, 1971 |
| Alma mater | Saint Louis University (BS) University of the Cordilleras (LLB) Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (MPP) University of Sydney (LL.M) |
| Occupation | Lawyer, Certified public accountant, Civil servant |
Janet Braganza Abuel (born March 13, 1971) is a Filipino lawyer, accountant and public servant who, from March to August 2019, served as acting secretary of the Department of Budget and Management in the Duterte administration following the appointment of former-Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).
Abuel was born on March 13, 1971, in Dagupan, Pangasinan,[1] the fourth of seven children of Miguel and Fausta Abuel.[2] She went to Dominican School in Dagupan for her elementary and secondary schooling.[1]
From 1987 to 1991, she attended Saint Louis University in Baguio where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree major in accounting.[1] She passed the certified public accountant examinations in 1991.[2]
For her post graduate studies, she attended Baguio Colleges Foundation (currently known as the University of the Cordilleras) where she earned a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1998. A single working mother, she attended night school from 5 to 8 p.m. after office work.[2] In the 1998 bar examinations, she placed first with a 91.80% rating, becoming the first bar topnotcher of the university.[1][2] When interviewed in 2000 about her experiences after topping the bar, she said:[3]
The short term benefits include prestige and celebrity status. There were a lot of job offers from prestigious law and auditing firms, and from the government. I learn a little more now and can afford luxuries like buying my own books. I used to photocopy law books before because I was the sole breadwinner and it was necessary for me to make both ends meet.
— Janet Abuel, On top of the bar, Manila Standard
From 2004 to 2005, she went to Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy under a scholarship and earned a Master's degree in public policy.[1] She was also awarded a certificate of completion in 2014 from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University where she attended the Executive Education Program on Driving Government Performance.[1][4] She also holds a Master of Laws degree from University of Sydney in Australia.[5]
