The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) welcomed over the weekend the appointment of lawyer Rogelio Quevedo as its new commissioner.
Quevedo replaced lawyer Hubert Dominic Guevara, whose term as SEC commissioner ended after his untimely demise in March.
“We give our warmest welcome to Atty. Quevedo, whose decades of experience in corporate law and the government service will help the Commission navigate new and emerging trends in the business sector,” SEC chairperson Emilio Aquino said in a statement.
Prior to his appointment as SEC commissioner, Quevedo headed the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel, which serves as the principal legal office of all government-owned or -controlled corporations, their subsidiaries and other corporate offsprings.
He also served other government offices in various capacities, including the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System board, Presidential Management Staff and Office of the Ombudsman.
He joined the government service following his retirement from a two-year stint as a senior executive in a telecommunications company. He was also a professor in commercial and civil law at the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law, and supervising lawyer at the college’s Office of the Legal Aid.
Quevedo has a degree in economics from UP, where he also finished his law studies. He placed 10th in the 1981 bar exams.
He completed his Master of Laws from the Louisiana State University and his Doctor of the Science of Jurisprudence from the Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.