Elvin Ivan Y. Uy is the Executive Director of Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), the country’s largest business-led NGO at the nexus of corporate citizenship, sustainable development, and poverty reduction. He also leads several of the most impactful local NGOs — as Chairperson of the Foundation for a Sustainable Society, Inc. (FSSI), Treasurer of the Partnership for Development Assistance in the Philippines (PDAP), and trustee of the Caucus of Development NGO Networks (CODE-NGO), Philippine Council for NGO Certification (PCNC), and Restart Micro-Enterprise (RestartME).He is a member of the Standing Committee on Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) and Basic Education of the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II), and a former Assistant Secretary and K to 12 Program Coordinator of the Department of Education (DepEd). Before and after stints in the public sector, Elvin did product management, business development, strategic management, and sustainability in the Philippine telecommunications and steel industries. He is the recipient of the 2017 Carnegie Mellon University Outstanding Recent Alumni Award and ranked first in the April 2005 Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) Licensure Examination.Elvin has a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management, Highest Distinction, from Carnegie Mellon University in Australia as an Australia Awards scholar and an ECE degree, Magna Cum Laude, from De La Salle University. He completed a year-long IDEAS (Innovative Dynamic Education and Action for Sustainability) Asia Pacific Fellowship with the MIT Sloan School of Management and United in Diversity (UID) in 2023.