Jaime Laya

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Jaime C. Laya is founder and Chairman of KPMG/Laya Mananghaya & Co., certified public accountants and management consultants. His father was the renowned English novelist J.C. Laya. He is one of the 1967 TOYM Awardees for Business Education.

[edit] Education

He received a B.S.B.A. degree (magna cum laude) at University of the Philippines. He finished his masters in industrial management at Georgia Institute of Technology. He then took graduate studies in finance at Stanford University

[edit] Career

At various times He was professor and dean of the University of the Philippines College of Business Administration, Minister of the Budget, Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, and Chairman of the Monetary Board and Governor, Central Bank of the Philippines. He was Chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts from December 1996 to December 2001.

He was foremost in the campaing to save Intramuros as chairman of the Intramuros Administration. He has authored numerous books and articles on banking, public finance, accounting, education and culture. His book "Letras y Figuras: Business in Culture, Culture in Business" (Anvil, 2001) was awarded the Manila Critics Circle Book Award for the essay. He is an passionate collector and wrote the definitive book on Philippine collecting, "Consuming Passions: Philippine Collectibles" (Anvil 2003).