Gerardo Sicat

Who is Gerardo Sicat?

Gerardo P. Sicat is a Filipino economist, educator and public servant. He is the first Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority, the Philippine's national economic planning agency. Later, he was named Minister of Economic Planning and member of the now defuct Batasang Pambansa under President Ferdinand Marcos.

A graduate of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he founded the Philippine Institute of Development Studies, currently an attached agency to NEDA, and contested in the 1999 selection of the University of the Philippines president together with prominent figures such as former senator Leticia Ramos-Shahani and sociologist Ledivina V. Cariño but ultimately lost to political scientist Francisco Nemenzo, Jr.

Sicat is a Professor Emeritus of the University of the Philippines School of Economics.