{"id":606,"date":"2025-07-18T07:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/?page_id=606"},"modified":"2025-07-18T07:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:40:25","slug":"gonzalo-varela","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/speakers\/gonzalo-varela\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonzalo Varela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:39px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Gonzalo is the Lead Economist of the Prosperity Practice Group for Brunei, Malaysia and Philippines, based in Manila. He\u2019s a macro economist by training, with a PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex, and more than 20 years of experience in policy advisory, policymaking, operations, and research. He has worked in a vast number of countries on issues related to economic performance, trade and investment policy and macro-trade linkages, and impact evaluations of public policies. Before working for the World Bank, he worked for academia, for the public and private sector.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Bank Lead Economist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607,"parent":90,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-606","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606\/revisions\/610"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}