Mr. Edilberto C. de Jesus, Filipino, 82, was elected as an Independent Director of the Company in April 2024, after stepping down as Independent Director of PHINMA, Inc., where he had served since 2009. He is currently a member of the Corporate Governance Committee and chairs the Nominations Committee.

He also serves on the boards of institutions in the Far Eastern University Group, among them, the Public Policy Center, the Institute of Technology, FEU Roosevelt College, and the FEU High School. He is a member of the Makati Business Club, the Institute of Corporate Directors, the Foundation for Liberty and Prosperity, and the Singapore-based Asian Dialogue Society. He is currently on the board of advisers of the Philippine Business for Education, a Non-Resident Sr. Research Fellow at the Ateneo de Manila School of Government and a member of Board of Advisers of Doshisha Business School in Kyoto.

Mr. de Jesus had previously served as president of Far Eastern University, the University of the Cordilleras, and the Asian Institute of Management. He had served on the boards of the Ateneo de Manila University. Far Eastern University, and Centro Escolar University. He served in the Cabinet of Corazon Aquino as Presidential Adviser, with a concurrent appointment in the Peace Commission as Deputy Commissioner. In the first term of Gloria Arroyo, he served as Secretary of the Department of Education, assuming during this period the presidency of the Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO). After his DepEd term, he served as SEAMEO Secretariat Director in Bangkok.

Mr. de Jesus obtained his Bachelor of Arts Honor Degree in Humanities from the Ateneo de Manila University, and his Master of Philosophy and PhD degrees in History from Yale University.