“I do congratulate the government of the Philippines. I think President Aquino’s government has done a model PPP Center under the leadership of PPP Center Executive Director Cosette Canilao and the results are obviously there in terms of projects that have left, projects under review, and projects in the pipeline. And I’m beginning to see how PPP centers evolve and develop around the region that obviously some of the experiences of the Philippines and the models that the Philippines has chosen to advance infrastructure are in fact being adopted by other economies in the region.”

Ambassador Neil Reeder
Embassy of Canada in the Philippines
Co-chair of the APEC PPP Experts’ Advisory Council
Fostering APEC’s Infrastructure Through Long-Term Investment and Capital Market Development
Iloilo City, Philippines
23-24 July 2015