Cesar Virata

Cesar Enrique Aguinaldo Virata is a Filipino former statesman and businessman who was the fourth Prime Minister of the Philippines from 1981 to 1986. Serving concurrently as Secretary of Finance from 1970 to 1986, Virata was the chief economic technocrat during the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos. He is currently serving as the corporate vice chairman of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation. He is the eponym of the Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business (VSB), the business school of the University of the Philippines Diliman, a naming designation that has sparked public controversy due to his high-level association with the Marcos martial law regime.