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Mary Jean T. Pacheco

Undersecretary for eCommerce Group (ECG) · Department of Trade and Industry Philippines

Biography

Mary Jean T. Pacheco is a highly motivated, dedicated Career Executive Service Officer (CESO) with significant contribution and experience in public sector management, specifically in planning, monitoring, and evaluation, performance management, public administration, and public policy formulation. As a CESO, USEC Pacheco is a 2015 CES VIP (Very Innovative Person 2015) awardee for introducing innovation and institutionalising good governance initiatives in the DTI and a Gawad CES nominee in 2023. Last 2021, she participated in the Lee Kuan Yew Senior Fellowship in Singapore and became a Lee Kuan Yew Fellow. Lastly, in 2022, she received two significant awards from her alma mater, the University of Santo Tomas. First is the Commerce Outstanding Alumni 2022 by the College of Commerce Alumni Foundation (Cocafi) in the field of government service as a graduate of the UST College of Commerce and Business Administration. Second as one of the Most Distinguished Thomasian Alumni conferred by the UST Alumni Association and nominated by the PMT/CAT alumni association. And just recently, she was an awardee of the Institute for Solidarity of Asia’s (ISA) 2024 College of Fellows as champion and leader of governance reform. Appointed last December 6, 2023 as DTI Undersecretary, USEC Pacheco now manages the DTI eCommerce Group (ECG) which includes managing the E-Commerce Bureau and the Office of Supply Chain and Logistics.