MS. EDITHA L. PIMENTEL

Ms. Pimentel is Training Specialist and Head of the Training Unit under SEAMEO INNOTECH's Programs Office. Prior to this, she was involved in the Center's Applied Academics for Excellence (APEX) Project for three years, in-charged of teacher training and development. As Project Associate for APEX, she was directly responsible in designing and managing the training and development programs for school principals and teachers of the Project's pilot sites in Laguna, Leyte and Cebu.

Before joining SEAMEO INNOTECH, she served as Program Manager of the Center for Development Management at the Asian Institute of Management. She also worked as Training Specialist for the Nordic Agency for Development and Ecology (NORDECO), a Danish-based international consulting and project management company. While at NORDECO, Ms. Pimentel managed the training component of the World Bank-DENR (Department of Environment and Natural Resources) Technical Assistance Project on Improving Biodiversity Conservation in the Philippines.

She has served more than ten (10) years in the government service where she was heavily engaged in the development and management of competency-based training and other HR development programs for the department personnel and executives.

Ms. Pimentel has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, with specialization on Human Resource Management from the International Academy of Management and Economics. She completed certificate programs on Human Resource Development from the Development Academy of the Philippines and Career Development and Management from the Ateneo de Manila University. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines.