Certification Course for Compliance Officers (Module 1)

She served as Director of the Corporate Governance and Finance Department of the Securities and Exchange Commission until her retirement in 2017. Her responsibilities included the supervision of companies that are covered by various Codes of Corporate Governance.

She also currently holds the following positions in different companies:
Independent Director of Panasonic Manufacturing Philippines Corporation
Independent Director of the Vista Land & Lifescapes, Inc.
Independent Director of Orix Metro Leasing and Finance Corporation
Independent Director of AIB Money Market Mutual Fund, Inc.
Director of the Securities Investor Fund, Inc.
Consultant of the ASA Philippine Foundation, a Microfinance NGO

He is a lawyer specializing in tax, corporate, investments, securities, and commercial transactions. He is the Managing Director of a tax, accounting and corporate consultancy firm providing services such as bookkeeping and payroll, tax filing and compliance, BIR audits and assessments, tax planning and advisory, corporate housekeeping, business registrations, and investment structuring.

His other positions include: Senior Legal Advisor of an investment and transaction advisory firm for infrastructure projects; Special Counsel at a full-service law firm; Legal Counsel of a fintech company; Director for Legal of an IT company in the field of broadcast and telecommunications; and Finance Head of a manpower company operating and deploying human resources nationwide.

In his decade of legal practice, he has handled various companies addressing different legal issues while sitting as corporate secretary or assistant corporate secretary in more than 30 of them, 5 of which are public and/or listed companies. He obtained his business degree from the UP College of Business Administration, where he was previously a faculty member teaching taxation, and his law degree from the UP College of Law, where he is presently a faculty member teaching taxation among others.

One of the most senior Fellows and an incumbent trustee of the Institute of Corporate Directors, Atty. Kalaw is primarily responsible for creating and developing ICD’s Governance Framework for Family-Owned or Controlled Corporations and has counseled and taught such both locally and internationally, with the latter aspect particularly as a consultant to the World Bank's International Finance Corporation.

He is the only Filipino triple-certified (1) as both a sustainability trainer by the Global Reporting Initiative and a sustainability reporting specialist by the Institute of Certified Sustainability Practitioners; (2) in the Balanced Scorecard strategy management process by the Palladium, the firm of Professors Kaplan & Norton (the Harvard Business School faculty who conceptualized this leading performance methodology); and (3) as certified Compliance & Ethics Professional - International by the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics.

He presently serves as an independent board director of the shipping and logistics firm Gothong Southern. Atty. Kalaw’s 5 graduate degrees include a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School, a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and a Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge.

He is the general accountant of the SEC. Concurrently, he holds other various positions including being SEC Alternate Representative to the Auditing and Assurance Standard Council and Financial Reporting Standards Council and a Member of the Philippine Interpretations Committee among many other positions.

Aside from being the SEC General Accountant, he is currently serving as Chairman of the SEC Bids and Awards Committee, SEC Alternate Representative to the Auditing and Assurance Standard Council and Financial Reporting Standards Council and a Member of the Philippine Interpretations Committee. He also served as Head of the SEC Hearing Panel Handling Rehabilitation and Liquidation Cases.

He has attended various International Training Courses, Seminars and Workshops related to accountancy and audit:
      - 2019 International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators Plenary Meeting held Greece
      - World Standard Setters Conference in London UK last October
      - ASEAN Audit Regulators Group Inspection Workshops and
      - The US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) International Institute.

She was Commissioner of the Philippine Competition Commission until June 2021.

Authored of the newly published book on The Philippine Competition Act Annotated 2021 Edition.

Immediately prior to joining the PCC, she was advocacy adviser for the European Chamber of Commerce.

In the private sector, Atty. Asuncion has extensive experience in commercial and corporate practice. She advised top local and foreign businesses in various capacities, including as chief legal counsel and as a corporate partner of a law firm.

Atty. Asuncion received her law degree from the University of the Philippines and pursued her Master of Laws (with distinction) in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. She is also admitted to the New York bar.

She finished her BA English Studies from the University of the Philippines where she graduated magna cum laude. She was editor of the Philippine Law Journal and has published works locally and internationally, including in the European Journal of International Law.

He is the trainer and consultant at the Information and Communications Technology Literacy and Competency Development Bureau of the Department of Information and Communications Technology.

He has recently done capability building of management and workforce on privacy impact assessment and privacy and security management manual with the following organizations among many others:

1. Department of Finance and some of its attached agency
2. Department of Agriculture – National Meat Inspection Services
3. Philhealth - Information Security Group
4. Light Rail Transit Authority
5. Philippine Fish Port Authority
6. MAA General Assurance
7. PHIVIDEC Industrial Authority

He co-authored the United Nations ESCAP/ APCICT published guidance on ICT Project Management – Theory and Application. The academy module has been introduced and translated in six (6) countries.