Assistant Secretary and Deputy National Statistician (DNS) Rosalinda P. Bautista of the Philippine Statistics Authority is the new President of the Association who will serve for the period 2022-2024.
DNS Rosalinda "Rose" Bautista has served as the current head of the Philippine Identification System Registry Office (PRO) of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) since 2020. As the head of PRO, she was responsible in the implementation of the government’s central identification platform for all citizens and resident aliens in the country.
DNS Bautista has more than forty years of experience in the Philippine Statistical System, of which two years is as Deputy National Statistician of the Sectoral Statistics Office, the PSA arm for the release of relevant data in the areas of macroeconomic accounts, economic statistics and social sector statistics, and eighteen years as Regional Director of PSA in CALABARZON and NCR. She was conferred Career Executive Service Officer (CESO), Rank V. She also represented the country in various international engagements and conferences related to the development of PSA’s statistical products and services.