Vincent S Perez

Vincent S. Perez, Jr. (born 1958) is the son of Vincent Abad Perez, Sr. and was educated at the University of the Philippines, earning a degree in economics in 1979. He earned his MBA at the Wharton School of Business in 1983 before joining Mellon Bank, and completing their international credit training program. He then went to work for Lazard Frères & Co. as a bond trader and investment banker. He served in early 2001 as Undersecretary for Industry at the Department of Trade and Industry in the Philippines and as Managing Head of the Board of Investments. He served from 2001 to 2005 in the Cabinet of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as Energy Secretary.

Perez has been active in renewable power, energy advisory and conservation issues since his return to the private sector in 2005. He was a 2005 World Fellow at Yale University, where he lectured an MBA class on renewable power in emerging countries. In 2006, as founder and chairman of the founder and CEO of Alternergy, he was an investor in NorthWind Power, the first wind farm in Southeast Asia, and he is chairman of Merritt Partners, an energy advisory firm to companies doing business in Asia. He serves on the board of directors of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in the Philippines since 2008.