The Department of Trade and Industry is the executive department of the Philippine government tasked as the main economic catalyst that enables innovative, competitive, job generating, inclusive business, and empowers consumers. It acts as a catalyst for intensified private sector activity in order to accelerate and sustain economic growth through comprehensive industrial growth strategy, progressive and socially responsible trade liberalization and deregulation programs and policymaking designed for the expansion and diversification of Philippine trade – both domestic and foreign.
This sub-project aims to organize genealogical data on people who has been working or had worked at the Department of Trade and Industry and its predecessors. Find more at the master project page, Philippines Portal.
Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce
- León María Leogardo Guerrero | May 7, 1899 - November 13, 1899
Secretary of Commerce and Police
- William Cameron Forbes | June 5, 1904 - November 10, 1909
Secretaries of Agriculture and Commerce
- Eulogio Rodriguez Sr. | July 26, 1934 - 1938
- Benigno Q. Aquino, Sr. | 1938 - 1940
- Rafael Alunan | 1940 - 1941
Secretary of Finance, Agriculture, and Commerce
- Andrés Soriano | 1941 - 1944
Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce
- Manuel Nieto | 1944 - 1945
Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce
- Vicente Singson Encarnación | 1945 - 1946
Secretaries of Commerce and Industry
- Cornelio Balmaceda (acting) | October 21, 1947 - January 25, 1948
- Placido Lizares Mapa | January 26, 1948 - September 20, 1948
- Cornelio Balmaceda | September 21, 1948 - December 31, 1953
- Oscar Ledesma | January 1, 1954 - September 12, 1957
- Pedro Hernáez | September 23, 1957 - January 24, 1960
- Manuel Lim | January 25, 1960 - May 31, 1962
- Rufino Hechanova | June 1, 1962 - June 30, 1963
- Cornelio Balmaceda | July 1, 1963 - 1965
- Marcelo Balatbat | 1966 - 1968
- Leonides Virata | 1969 - 1970
- Ernesto Maceda | 1970 - 1971
- Troadio T. Quiazon Jr. | 1971 - 1974
Secretary of Industry
- Vicente Paterno | 1974 - June 2, 1978
Ministers of Industry
- Vicente Paterno | June 2, 1978 - 1979
- Roberto Ongpin | July 23, 1979 - July 27, 1981
Minister of Commerce
- Luis Villafuerte | July 23, 1979 - July 27, 1981
Ministers of Trade and Industry
- Roberto Ongpin | July 27, 1981 - February 25, 1986
- JoeCon Concepcion, Jr. | February 25, 1986 - February 27, 1987
Secretaries of Trade and Industry
- JoeCon Concepcion, Jr. | February 27, 1987 - January 8, 1991
- Peter Garrucho | January 9, 1991 - February 1992
- Lilia Ronquillo Bautista (acting) | February 1992 - June 30, 1992
- Rizalino S. Navarro | July 1, 1992 - July 30, 1996
- Cesar Bautista | August 1, 1996 - June 30, 1998
- Jose Pardo | June 30, 1998 - January 2, 2000
- Mar Roxas | January 2, 2000 - December 10, 2003
- Cesar Purisima | December 10, 2003 - July 2005
- Juan B. Santos | July 2005 - 2005
- Peter Favila | 2005 - March 15, 2010
- Jesli Lapus | March 15, 2010 - June 30, 2010
- Gregory Domingo | July 1, 2010 - December 31, 2015
- Adrian Cristobal Jr. | January 1, 2016 - June 30, 2016
- Ramon Mangahas Lopez | June 30, 2016 - June 30, 2022
- Alfredo E. Pascual | June 30, 2022 (reappointed October 4, 2022) - August 2, 2024
- Cristina Aldeguer-Roque | Acting Secretary since August 2, 2024)
Resources
- "Department of Trade and Industry (Philippines)" Wikipedia.
- "Secretary of Trade and Industry (Philippines)" Wikipedia.
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