Janet Abuel

Janet Abuel
Janet Abuel
Secretary of Budget and Management ; Officer in Charge
	In office; March 5, 2019 –August 5, 2019

Last updated April 06, 2024

The short term benefits include prestige and celebrity status. There were a lot of job offers from prestigious law and auditing firms, and from the government. I learn a little more now and can afford luxuries like buying my own books. I used to photocopy law books before because I was the sole breadwinner and it was necessary for me to make both ends meet.
— Janet Abuel, On top of the bar, Manila Standard

From 2004 to 2005, she went to Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy under a scholarship and earned a Master's degree in public policy.^[1] She was also awarded a certificate of completion in 2014 from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University where she attended the Executive Education Program on Driving Government Performance.^[1]^[4] She also holds a Master of Laws degree from University of Sydney in Australia.^[5]

Career

Abuel first started her career as a new accounts clerk at the Makati branch of BPI Family Bank from 1993 to 1994. In 1995, she was an accounting clerk of the Baguio Sub-Regional Office of the Home Development Mutual Fund. In 1996, she was an accountant of the Sto. Niño Jesus Medical Center in Baguio. Abuel was also a part-time instructor at the University of the Cordilleras College of Law from 1999 to 2010 and authored the handbook Bar Review Methods and Techniques, 2003 Edition.^[1]

Department of Budget & Management

Abuel started working at the DBM in 1996 as a budget analyst of the department's Cordillera Administrative Region office in Baguio. Up until 1999, she worked in the regional office becoming a budget specialist in 1998 and a senior budget specialist in July 1999. A month later, in August, Abuel was promoted to being the director of the department's legal and legislative service in the central office. She was personally offered the position by then-DBM Secretary Benjamin Diokno after he learned that she had topped the bar.^[2] At the time, she was the department's youngest director IV, the highest level among government directors.^[3] She then became the regional director, in 2002, of DBM's Ilocos Region office in San Fernando, La Union.^[1]

After serving for about a decade in the regional office, she was appointed by then-President Benigno Aquino III as assistant secretary of the department, replacing Ruby Alvarez.^[6] As assistant secretary, Abuel handled assignments of assisting the Undersecretary for Operations in the supervision of the bureau in charge of policy formulation and local government units (LGUs) concerns, the Project Management Office on LGU Public Financial Management, and overseeing the regional offices.^[4]

For a period, she took the reins of the Corporate Affairs Group, particularly supervising the Administrative Service, and the Financial and Management Service. She also directly supervised the Legislative Liaison Office. From 2012 to October 2015, she was the chair of the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC).^[4]

She became an undersecretary in March 2015.^[1] As undersecretary, she was designated to head the establishment of the Office of the Comptroller General, and oversee the bureau in charge of policy formulation and LGU concerns, the PMO on LGU PFM, and supervise the regional offices.^[4]

Following the death of BSP Governor Nestor Espenilla Jr. in February 2019, then-Secretary Diokno was appointed to serve his unexpired term. After that, Abuel was named officer-in-charge of the department. In a cabinet meeting held in April 2019, President Duterte "verbally" appointed Abuel as acting secretary amid the 45-day appointment ban ahead of the 2019 Philippine general election.^[7]

Awards

1999 DBM Sariling Sikap Awards^[8]
Ten Outstanding Citizens of Baguio CIty^[8]

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Curriculum Vitae of Atty. Janet Braganza Abuel, CPA, MPP" (PDF). International Criminal Court . May 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
1 2 3 4 5 Sol Jose, Vanzi (April 7, 1999). "SINGLE WORKING MOTHER FROM BAGUIO TOPS BAR EXAMS". Philippine Headline News Online. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
1 2 Jara-Puyod, Maricar (April 15, 2000). "On top of the bar". Manila Standard. p. 21.
1 2 3 4 "ATTY. JANET B. ABUEL". DBM Procurement Service. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
↑ Corrales, Nestor (March 5, 2019). "Budget USec Janet Abuel is DBM OIC". INQUIRER.net. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
↑ "Appointments and Designations: May 25, 2012". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. May 25, 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
↑ Vidal, Karl Angelo N. (April 2, 2019). "Duterte 'verbally' appoints acting chief of Budget Department". BusinessWorld. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
1 2 Manguerra, Emil John T.; Abacan, Crispin Mahrion B. (January–March 2019). "IN THE LEAD" (PDF). The DBM Bulletin. Retrieved June 15, 2019.

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[:0-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Curriculum Vitae of Atty. Janet Braganza Abuel, CPA, MPP" (PDF). International Criminal Court . May 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2019.

[:1-2] 1 2 3 4 5 Sol Jose, Vanzi (April 7, 1999). "SINGLE WORKING MOTHER FROM BAGUIO TOPS BAR EXAMS". Philippine Headline News Online. Retrieved June 15, 2019.

[:4-3] 1 2 Jara-Puyod, Maricar (April 15, 2000). "On top of the bar". Manila Standard. p. 21.

[:2-4] 1 2 3 4 "ATTY. JANET B. ABUEL". DBM Procurement Service. Retrieved June 15, 2019.

[5] Corrales, Nestor (March 5, 2019). "Budget USec Janet Abuel is DBM OIC". INQUIRER.net. Retrieved January 30, 2021.

[6] "Appointments and Designations: May 25, 2012". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. May 25, 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2019.

[7] Vidal, Karl Angelo N. (April 2, 2019). "Duterte 'verbally' appoints acting chief of Budget Department". BusinessWorld. Retrieved June 15, 2019.

[:3-8] 1 2 Manguerra, Emil John T.; Abacan, Crispin Mahrion B. (January–March 2019). "IN THE LEAD" (PDF). The DBM Bulletin. Retrieved June 15, 2019.

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Janet Abuel


Secretary of Budget and Management Officer in Charge
In office March 5, 2019 –August 5, 2019