Filipino, 69 years old, was elected as independent director of Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) in April 2022 and is the chairman of the Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee. Mr. de Dios was professor at the University of the Philippines School of Economics from 1980 until his retirement in 2019. He is currently trustee/chairman of Pulse Asia Research, Inc. and is independent director of Rockwell Land Corporation and ABS-CBN Holdings Corporation. He is also a Trustee of Assisi Development Foundation, Inc., the Peace and Equity Foundation, Inc., and the FEU Public Policy Center.
He was the Dean of the University of the Philippines School of Economics from 2007 to 2010.
He received his AB Economics degree from the Ateneo de Manila University (cum laude) in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of the Philippines in 1987. He pursued post-doctoral studies at the Universität Konstanz in Germany from 1987 to 1988 and is the author or editor of various books, monographs, articles and reviews in economics.