Chito B. Salazar is the President and Chief Operating Officer, Head of Education of PHINMA Corporation. Concurrently, he is the President and Chief Executive Officer of PHINMA Education and a Senior Vice President of PHINMA, Inc. from 2003 to present. Dr. Salazar was first elected as Director of the Company at the Annual Stockholders’ Meeting held on April 14, 2021. 

He is also the President and Co-Founder of PBEd, a nonprofit organization founded by the country’s top business leaders that works for education policy reform; Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU); and an Advisory Council member for the Second Congressional Commission on Education or EDCOM 2.

Prior to joining PHINMA, Dr. Salazar was a part-time Associate Professor at the School of Management and at the School of Social Sciences from 2007 to 2010 and Part-Time Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Department of English and Department of Math at ADMU from 1988 to 1992. He was also a part-time Lecturer at the Economics Department of Assumption College and an Associate Professor at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM).

Dr. Salazar has a PhD in International Relations, Major in International Development and Development Management from the School of International Service at The American University in Washington, D.C.; an MA in International Political Economy and Development from Fordham University in New York, and a BS Management Engineering degree from ADMU.