Dr. Chito B. Salazar is the President and CEO of PHINMA Education Holdings Inc., a fast-growing network of schools in Southeast Asia that serves students in the low and mid-income markets.

Guided by its mission of making lives better through education, PHINMA Education owns and manages nine schools in the Philippines, namely, PHINMA Araullo University, PHINMA Cagayan de Oro College, PHINMA University of Pangasinan, PHINMA University of Iloilo, Southwestern University PHINMA, PHINMA St. Jude College Manila, PHINMA Republican College, PHINMA Rizal College of Laguna, and PHINMA Union College of Laguna. It also manages Horizon Karawang, West Java, Indonesia through Horizon Education.

Concurrently, he is the Chief Operations Officer of PHINMA, President and Co-Founder of Philippine Business for Education (PBEd), a nonprofit organization founded by the country’s top business leaders that works for education policy reform. He is also a Governor of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP), and a member of the Board of Directors of Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), PAMI Managed Funds, the Philippine Press Council and the Governing board of the Philippine Statistical Research & Training Institute.

Dr. Salazar has a PhD in International Relations, Major in International Development and Development Management from the School of International Service at The American University in Washington, D.C.; an M.A. in International Political Economy and Development from Fordham University in New York, and a B.S. Management Engineering degree from ADMU.