Ms. Habitan served as Assistant Secretary of the Department of Finance where she became a career bureaucrat for 44 years immediately after graduating with a degree in Business Economics from the University of the Philippines. She has a masters degree in D
She handled typical public finance issues relating to deficit and debt management focusing on revenue forecasting and tax reforms. She became focal person of the PH-Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives in 2013.
At her retirement, she was appointed chancellor of the Local Government Finance Institute of the Philippine Tax Academy whose main mandate is training of revenue personnel.
When not engaged in course development, she is busy pitting wits against her four young grandkids and enjoying K-drama binges.
