University of the Cordilleras
Janet Abuel went to which school between Apr 1995 and Jul 1995?
Janet Abuel Janet Braganza Abuel ( born March 13 , 1971 ) is a Filipino lawyer , accountant and public servant who , on March to August 2019 , was acting secretary of the Department of Budget and Management following the appointment of former-Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas . Early life and education . Abuel was born on March 13 , 1971 , in Dagupan , Pangasinan , the fourth of seven children of Miguel and Fausta Abuel . She went to Dominican School in Dagupan for her elementary and secondary schooling . From 1987 to 1991 , she attended Saint Louis University in Baguio where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree major in accounting . She passed the certified public accountant examinations in 1991 . For her post graduate studies , she attended Baguio Colleges Foundation ( currently known as the University of the Cordilleras ) where she earned a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1998 . A single working mother , she attended night school from 5 to 8 p.m . after office work . In the 1998 bar examinations , she placed first with a 91.80% rating , becoming the first bar topnotcher of the university . From 2004 to 2005 , she went to Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy under a scholarship and earned a Masters degree in public policy . She was also awarded a certificate of completion in 2014 from the John F . Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University where she attended the Executive Education Program on Driving Government Performance . She also holds a Master of Laws degree from University of Sydney in Australia . Career . Abuel first started her career as a new accounts clerk at the Makati branch of BPI Family Bank from 1993 to 1994 . In 1995 , she was an accounting clerk of the Baguio Sub-Regional Office of the Home Development Mutual Fund . In 1996 , she was an accountant of the Sto . Niño Jesus Medical Center in Baguio . Abuel was also a part-time instructor at the University of the Cordilleras College of Law from 1999 to 2010 and authored the handbook Bar Review Methods and Techniques , 2003 Edition . Department of Budget & Management . Abuel started working at the DBM in 1996 as a budget analyst of the departments Cordillera Administrative Region regional office in Baguio City . Up until 1999 , she was still in the regional office becoming a budget specialist in 1998 and a senior budget specialist in July 1999 . A month later , in August , Abuel was promoted to being the director of the budget departments legal and legislative service . She was personally offered the position by then-DBM Secretary Benjamin Diokno after he learned that she had topped the bar . She then became the regional director , in 2002 , of DBMs Ilocos Region office in San Fernando , La Union . After serving for about a decade in the regional office , she was appointed by then-President Benigno Aquino III as assistant secretary of the department , replacing Ruby U . Alvarez . As assistant secretary , Abuel handled assignments of assisting the Undersecretary for Operations in the supervision of the bureau in charge of policy formulation and concerns of local government units ( LGUs ) , the Project Management Office on LGU Public Financial Management , and other local and regional concerns , including overseeing the DBM Regional Offices . For a period , she took the reins of the Corporate Affairs Group , particularly supervising the Administrative Service , and the Financial and Management Service of the DBM . She also directly supervised the Department Legislative Liaison Office in Congress ( House of Representatives and Senate ) . From 2012 to October 2015 , she had been the chair of the Bids and Awards Committee ( BAC ) of the department . She became an undersecretary in March 2015 . As undersecretary , she was designated to head the establishment of the Office of the Comptroller General , and oversee the bureau in charge of policy formulation and concerns of LGUs , the PMO on LGU PFM , and other local and regional concerns , and supervise the DBM Regional Offices . Following the death of BSP Governor Nestor Espenilla Jr . in February 2019 , then-Secretary Diokno was appointed to serve his unexpired term . After that , Abuel was named officer-in-charge of the department . In a cabinet meeting held in April 2019 , President Duterte verbally appointed Abuel as acting secretary amid the 45-day appointment ban ahead of the 2019 Philippine general election . Awards . - 1999 DBM Sariling Sikap Awards - Ten Outstanding Citizens of Baguio CIty