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Introduction

Jose M Layug, Jr or “Jay” is a senior partner at DivinaLaw and the co-head of the firm’s energy and utilities practice group. Layug served as chairman of the National Renewable Energy Board from 2016-2018. He was also the undersecretary of the Department of Energy from 2010-2012 and handled various units of the DOE, including the Renewable Energy Management Bureau, Energy Resources Development Bureau, Energy Utilisation Management Bureau and Oil Industry Management Bureau.

He currently serves as the president of the Developers of Renewable Energy for AdvanceMent, Inc (DREAM), the umbrella organisation of all renewable energy associations in the Philippines, including biomass, geothermal, solar, hydro, ocean and wind. He is also currently a director of the Philippine Energy Research & Policy Institute, the policy adviser of the Philippine government pursuant to Republic Act No. 11572.Layug is a former dean of the University of Makati School of Law. He has been a professor at the University of Makati School of Law since 2018 and the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law since 2002.

He obtained his bachelor of science in business economics with cum laude honours in 1992 and his bachelor of laws (1996) from UP College of Law. He finished his master of laws degree with honours in 2000 from Cornell Law School in New York, USA. While in Cornell, he was elected as the President of the Cornell LLM Association in 2001.Layug is licensed to practice law both in the Philippines (since 1997) and in New York (since 2000) having passed both Philippine and New York State bar examinations. He was a foreign lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, USA.

He is a member of the International Bar Association, Integrated Bar of the Philippines, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Cornell Law School Young Alumni Committee.