Youth and Migration: What it Means to be a Professional in the Philippines
Private Event
Jaime Laya, Pacific Leadership Fellow
November 21, 2008
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Location: Faculty Club Pavilion
Open to: Students, Invited Guest, Alumni
Jaime Laya, a certified public accountant and resident of the Philippines, will present an exclusive lecture to members of the San Diego Filipino community and the UC San Diego community. Laya will address the professional environment facing young people in the Philippines today as well as the challenges posed by prospects for migrating abroad.
A wine and cheese reception will begin at 5 p.m., followed by the lecture at 5:30 p.m. A dessert reception will be served at 6:30 p.m.
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Jaime Laya will be in residence as a Pacific Leadership Fellow at the Center on Pacific Economies at IR/PS from November 17 – 21, 2008. Laya graduated magna cum laude from the University of the Philippines with a degree in business administration. He received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in financial management and an M.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He served as governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines from 1981 to 1984 and currently serves as chairman of Philtrust Bank (formerly Philippine Trust Co.). Laya served as minister of the budget from 1975 to 1981, chairman of the monetary board of the Central Bank of the Philippines from 1981 to 1984, and as minister of education, culture and sports from 1984 to 1986.
After retiring from government service in 1986, Laya founded J.C. Laya & Co., Ltd., which was later renamed Laya Mananghaya & Co. Laya served as chairman of the firm until his retirement in 2004. Laya was chairman and president of the Association of Certified Public Accountants in Public Practice in 2003 and of the ACPAPP Foundation, Inc. in 2004. He is a recipient of the Association of Certified Public Accountants in Public Practice Lifetime Achievement Award (2007). A lifelong patron of the arts, Laya also served as chairman of the National Commission for Culture and Arts from 1996 to 2001. He now serves as treasurer for the Opera Guild of the Philippines.
