Allan B. Gepty is currently the Assistant Secretary for Industry Development and Trade Policy at the Department of Trade and Industry. His main portfolio is international trade policy and trade negotiations at the bilateral, regional, and multilateral level. Recently, he served as the country’s lead trade negotiator in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement, considered as the largest free trade deal in the world. He also serves as the country’s Senior Economic Official at the ASEAN.

Prior to his appointment, he was a Commissioner of the Philippine Tariff Commission. He also served as Deputy Director General of the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) of the Philippines from 2010 to 2017, and as OIC Director General from January 2015 to October 2015. As Deputy Director General and as OIC- Director General of IPO, he represented the country at the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

He is a member of the Supreme Court Sub Committee for the Revision of the Rules of Procedure for Intellectual Property Rights Cases. He is a lawyer by profession with diverse experience in the field of international trade, intellectual property, public international law, commercial law and litigation.

He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at The Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., He finished his law degree from the San Beda College, Manila in 1997, and his Master of Laws degree from the University of Santo Tomas, España, Manila, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce major in Economics from the same university, where he graduated Cum Laude in 1992.