Gerardo Butardo
Director, Integrated Supervision Department
Central Bank of Philippines
Dr. Gerardo Butardo holds a Doctor in Business Administration, Masters in Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degrees. He is a Certified Public Accountant. Dr. Butardo’s main role at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is enforcing banking rules and regulations through bank examination and policy initiatives. He is one of the key figures for Microfinance and SME regulations and initiatives being the former Head of the MSME Finance Specialist Group, the unit responsible for supervision of banks engaged in microfinance. Dr. Butardo was the BSP representative to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Workstream on Microfinance (2010) which proposed the application of Basel Principles for Microfinance Activities. Presently, he represents the BSP to the SME Finance Policy Working Group (SMEFWG) of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) and the Basel Consultative Group (BCG) Workstream for Financial Inclusion. Dr. Butardo is presently the Officer-in-Charge of the Examination Department III, the unit responsible for supervision of Thrift and Rural Banks which are the main providers of financial services to the MSME sector.