Mrs. GRACE M. CUADRO

An HR practitioner, she has behind her over 20 years of professional experience in the corporate world prior to joining the Centre. Her previous engagements in banking and financial institutions, with the last 6 years at a managerial level, honed her organizational, management and administrative skills and enriched her commitment to quality service and excellence.

Presently the Administrative Officer and Head of the Administrative Team of SEAMEO INNOTECH, she is in charge of the overall management and supervision of the various support units of the Centre, namely, Human Resource Management, Procurement, General Services and the International House.

She assists the Directorate in the formulation, revision, implementation and dissemination of personnel and administrative policies, organizational guidelines as well as employee welfare and discipline. She is actively involved in the Centre’s staff development programs and training interventions aligned to the strategic goal of building a strong learning organization. She provides the necessary support service to strengthen partnerships, linkages and collaboration with partner institutions. This includes staff exchange arrangements with other Regional Centres (such as RETRAC & VOCTECH) to promote sharing of best practices and to further strengthen cooperation among sister centres, arrangements for secondments, educational and benchmarking studies to other SEA countries, school visits and study trips by local and international institutions.

A BS Psychology major with a Diploma in Industrial Relations, she is presently finishing her master’s degree in Industrial Relations at the University of the Philippines. She is a long-time member of the Personnel Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP), a professional organization of human resource specialists and managers committed to promote continuing advancement of the HRM profession.

Her interests include people management, employee relations, team dynamics, counselling, organizational behavior in industrial relations, total quality management (TQM). As Quality Management Representative, she has been instrumental in securing and sustaining the Centre’s international accreditation (ISO 9001:2000).