A member of the Philippine Bar with approximately 20 years legal and policy experience, particularly in tax, corporate, investments and trade law, energy and environmental law, competition law and policy, and public policy.
Ms. Lynn Barcenas is presently a partner at Barcenas Barcenas & Partners Law Offices. In addition to her legal practice, she provides technical advice and assistance to various reform initiatives of the government, and related research projects, through among others, the World Bank Group (WBG), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Reform areas include trade facilitation, competitiveness, investment policy, competition, international trade, logistics and ICT. She was also formerly the Associate Director of the Asian Institute of Management Policy Center (now the AIM Rizalino S. Navarro Policy Center for Competitiveness) where she worked on public policy and managed or supervised policy projects of the Center, including on competitiveness, competition and energy.
Ms. Lynn Barcenas is a senior lecturer in Taxation at the University of the Philippines, College of Law, and formerly a professorial lecturer in International Economic Law at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law, teaching competition law and regional economic integration. She has also published policy/discussion papers, articles and researched on international trade, investments, trade and environment, and competition law and policy.
Ms. Lynn Barcenas has a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) degree (International Trade, Investments and Environmental Law and Policy) from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, Medford, MA; a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines, College of Law; and a Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree from the University of Nueva Caceres, graduating cum laude.
How Trade Facilitation Measures Impact Current Law and Policy on Wildlife and Timber Trade. Lai-Lynn Angelica B. Barcenas, CPA, LLB, MALD. June 25, 2010.
Balancing Industrial Concentration and Competition for Economic Development in Asia: Insights from South Korea, China, India, Indonesia and the Philippines. Ronald U. Mendoza, Lai-Lynn Angelica B. Barcenas, Padmini Mahurkar. August 30, 2012.
Environmental Aspects of a Potential Philippines-European Union Free Trade Agreement. La Viña, Antonio G. M, Lai-Lynn Angelica B. Barcenas, Carla Lesaca and Liezel Bobadilla. August 2014.
Analysis of Specific and Trade-Related Issues in a Possible PH-EU Economic Partnership. Lai-Lynn Angelica B. Barcenas, CPA, LLB, MALD. March 2015.
Promoting Coherence in Philippine Policies, Laws, Rules, and Regulations That Encourage the Growth and Development of Small and Medium Enterprises into Active Participants in the Global and Regional Economy. Lai-Lynn Angelica B. Barcenas, CPA, LLB, MALD. Maria Theresa M. Bautista, MA, JD. Joan P. Serrano, LLB. 2015.
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