Ms. Tiongson has been a banker since the late 1970’s having worked with Pacific Banking Corporation, BDO and Land Bank of the Philippines where she retired as Senior Vice President. Throughout her banking career, she handled various functions in Investment and Securities, Branch Banking, Consumer Lending, e-Banking, and Human Resource Management.
Ms. Tiongson was also an Associate Professor at the UST Graduate School and Colegio de San Juan de Letran, GS in Manila for a total of 13 years. She graduated from St. Louis University in Baguio City with a degree in BSC major in Economics, completed her MBA at Lyceum of the Philippines, and Ph.D. in Human Resource Management at University of Santo Tomas, with Latin honors. She was a board member of BancNet, an interbank electronic payments network for three years. Ms. Tiongson is presently an Independent Director of this Bank and SeaBank, Philippines.