Dorothea C Lazaro

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Dorothea C Lazaro

Asian Development Bank

Regional Cooperation Specialist

Ms. Lazaro is responsible for coordinating and overseeing trade-related work, particularly the implementation of the new integrated trade agenda under the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) program. Her key areas of work include trade policies and free trade agreement (FTA), customs, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, e-commerce and cross-border economic zones. Prior to joining the Asian Development Bank (ADB), she was Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) East and North-East Asia Subregional Office (based in Incheon, Republic of Korea). She contributed to research and capacity-building initiatives on development cooperation and regional integration in the East Asia region. Prior to that assignment, she led a team that pioneered a multi-year, multi-sectoral and up to AUD $30 million economic cooperation program for the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat (based in Jakarta, Indonesia). She held consultancy assignments including with then ADB’s Office of Regional Economic Integration, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, Foreign Service Institute, and the European Union’s Trade Related Technical Assistance for the Philippines. She has published works on FTAs, rules of origin, trade facilitation and other trade-related areas. She obtained her Juris Doctor degree from the Ateneo de Manila University in 2005 and was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2006. She holds a postgraduate diploma in Policy Analysis Skills for Transition Economies from International Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands) and a Public Administration degree from the University of the Philippines.

Chinese Best Practice in Cross-border E-commerce Session 17

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In this session, Ms. Lazaro from ADB introduces two reports on e-commerce development which focuses on infrastructure developmen...

2 Jul 2022

The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism and Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises(MSME)in the CAREC region

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This webinar looked specifically at how smaller firms coped with the pandemic and see what lessons can be learned for policymake...

30 Nov 2021

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