Ma. Regina M. Hechanova

Gina is the Executive Director of the Ateneo CORD. She has over 20 years of practice as a human resource management practitioner. She worked as internal HR consultant at the HR Strategic Group at Dow Chemical in Michigan, USA. In the Philippines, she was HR Adviser at San Miguel Foods and the Head of Human Resources at Meralco Foundation, Inc. She has served as external trainer and organization development (OD) consultant for a variety of organizations both in the Philippines and the US including Globe Telecom, Citibank etc. Gina has a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the Central Michigan University. She obtained her M.A. and B.S. degrees from the University of the Philippines. Her career as an academic started at the University of the Philippines, where she received the Chancellor’s Award for Most Outstanding Faculty. Today, she is a faculty of the Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology at the Ateneo de Manila University. A prolific researcher, she was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Scientists by the National Academy for Science and Technology in 2005. She has also been named as one of The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service in 2010.