Members of the Board of Commissioners

A Filipino citizen, age 84, Mr. Reynato S. Puno completed his Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of the Philippines in 1962. He obtained a Master of Laws Degree from the University of California at Berkeley, California, USA in 1968 and a Master of Comparative Law degree from the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA in 1967, as well as finished all academic requirements of the degree of Doctor of Juridical Science, University of Illinois, Champaign, Urbana, USA.

He joined the Supreme Court of the Philippines as an Associate Justice in June 1993, and was appointed Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court, serving from December 2006 until his retirement in May 2010. He also previously served in the Philippine judiciary as an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals, Appellate Justice of the Intermediate Appellate Court, and Acting City Judge of Quezon City. He was also Assistant Solicitor General and Deputy Minister of Justice. Mr. Puno is also a former Independent Director of Union Bank of the Philippines, Apex Mining Company, Inc. and Manila Bulletin Publishing Corp. (all publicly-listed companies in the Philippines) and Marcventure Mining and Development Corporation; Chairman of the World Vision Development Foundation, Inc., Member of the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines,and Past Grand Commander, Knights of Rizal. He was also appointed Chairman of the Consultative Committee to revise the 1987 Philippine Constitution. Mr. Puno is an Independent Director of San Miguel Corporation (a publicly- listed company in the Philippines), and an Independent Non- Executive Director of San Miguel Brewery Hong Kong Ltd. (a publicly-listed company in Hong Kong) and an Independent Director of San Miguel Brewery Inc. He is also the Chairman of the Environmental Heroes Foundation, GenWatt Solar Energy Solutions (Philippines), CybersCool Defcon, Inc. and Judge Isaac S. Puno, Jr. Memorial Foundation; Member (2011-2017; 2022~) and Chairman (2014-2017; 2022~) of the Philippine Bible Society; Vice Chairman of the Board of the GMA Kapuso Foundation; and Director of The New Standard Newspaper and World Vision Development Foundation, Inc; a Member of the Board of Regents of Manuel L. Quezon University, and a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in Hague; Legal Consultant to the Department of Energy and Union Bank of the Philippines; and Chairman of the Supreme Court Committee to Draft the Rules on the Anti-Terrorism Act.

He was appointed Independent Commissioner of the Company in May 2013.