Ricardo G. Felizardo, III

Studying B.S. Business Administration in Cesar E. A. Virata School of Business (formerly College of Business Administration) University of the Philippines Diliman.

As a business student I am being trained as a generalist but my interests and core competencies are about total quality management, project management, financial forecasting, statistical management tools, organizational behaviour, and theory of interest.

My pastime is reading web articles from the Harvard Business School, Financial Times, Business Insider, CNN.com, Business Mirror, Philippine Star, etc. that is to keep myself informed and updated with the latest and most current business, technological, political, and economic climate in the Philippines and abroad.

Leading teams is my thing, that is, practicing both my managerial and leadership skills that I have acquired through practical experiences and from the academe. To encourage and motivate other people that they can do better to uplift their spirits is what I religiously do.

I speak Filipino and English, and I am studying Spanish seriously.

Everything that I learn I owe from my country, and my capabilities from God. The University of the Philippines System through its Socialized Tuition System (formerly STFAP) and GIECO Lending and Resources Inc. both ensure that I can continue enjoying my privilege to education. Therefore, it is my duty as an "Iskolar ng Bayan" (scholar of the nation) to become an "Iskolar para sa Bayan" (scholar for the nation) by the time I graduate.

My goals as a future Iskolar para sa Bayan, are: to educate my countrymen about safe and sound financial decision makings; to initiate research on total quality management within the context of Filipino Corporate Environment, thus to successfully plant into the culture of the Filipino people the philosophy of TQM; and all these to promulgate to our generation that our new national challenge is "inclusive economic growth."