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Rizalino Navarro

Rizalino Navarro

Filipino businessman and politician

Rizalino S. Navarro (December 30, 1938 – July 7, 2011) was a Filipino businessman, business executive and politician. Navarro served as the Secretary of Trade and Industry from 1992 to 1996 within the Cabinet of former Philippines President Fidel Ramos.[1][2]

Quick Facts 18th Secretary of Trade and Industry (Philippines), President ...

Navarro earned a bachelor's degree in business administration cum laude from University of the East.[1] He earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.[1]

Navarro also served as the chief executive officer of both SGV & Co., the largest accounting firm in the Philippines, and Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC).[1] Navarro launched his career at SGV in 1982 and rose to managing director of the firm by 1992, when he left to become Secretary of Trade.[1]

He became Secretary of Trade through the invitation of then Finance Secretary Ramon del Rosario, who was one of Navarro's classmates at Harvard University.[1]

Rizalino Navarro died of an apparent heart attack at the RCBC corporate gym in Makati on July 7, 2011, at the age of 72.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Alcuaz, Coco (July 7, 2011). "Ex-DTI chief Navarro dies". ABS-CBN News Channel. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
  2. [2]
    Dumlao, Doris C. (July 7, 2011). "Former trade chief Rizalino Navarro dies of heart attack; 72". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved July 7, 2011.


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