Prof. Joselito G. Florendo, outgoing vice president for Planning and Finance of the University of the Philippines (UP) System, has been appointed as deputy director for Administration of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) effective December 1.
Florendo is an associate professor at the UP Diliman (UPD) Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business.
Having served as vice president for Planning and Finance of UP from May 2014 to November 2019, Florendo brings with him an extensive experience in administration.
He earlier served as assistant vice president for Planning and Finance, UP System; director of UP System Budget Office; chief accountant of the UP System Accounting Office; assistant executive director of the UP Foundation Inc.; executive director of the UP Provident Fund; director of the UPD Business Concessions Office; and chairman of the Department of Accounting and Finance, UPD Virata School of Business.
Florendo has also worked in financial management at the Departments of Budget and Management, of Social Welfare and Development, of Education (DepEd), and of Commission on Higher Education.
Not completely new to SEARCA, Florendo served as Financial Adviser on Accounting, Audit, Investment, and Finance at SEARCA from 2003 to 2007. Florendo has conducted training programs for Citigroup, United Coconut Planters Bank, the Chartered Business Administrator Program of the Philippines, and for overseas Filipino workers in Dubai.
He has authored chapters in the Philippine Corporate Finance (2009 Textbook Edition), and a case study on the arts and culture management in the Philippines in 2003.
A distinguished educator, Florendo was awarded the Most Outstanding Finance Educator of the Philippines by Deloitte-Finex in 2015. He is also the recipient of the Philippine Civil Service Dangal ng Bayan Award conferred by President Duterte in 2016.
In April, Florendo was named runner-up for the PwC Philippines's 2019 National Accounting Teacher Award on its inaugural year of honoring "the accounting teacher who is a distinguished model of excellence and who has helped uplift the standards of the teaching profession."
Florendo is a certified public accountant with a BS in Business Administration and Accountancy from UPD. He holds an International Masters in Small and Medium Enterprises from the Asia-Europe Institute of the University of Malaya, Malaysia. He was also a research fellow of the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Hosted by the Philippine government on the campus of UP Los Baños, SEARCA is mandated to strengthen institutional capacities toward agricultural and rural development in Southeast Asia through its programs on graduate education and institutional development, research and development, and knowledge management.
