Dante Canlas

{{Short description|Filipino economist}}

{{BLP sources|date=October 2010}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Dante Canlas

| image = Dr. Dante Canlas 2015 (cropped).jpg

| order =

| president = Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

| office = 10th Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority
Concurrently Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning

| term_start = January 20, 2001

| term_end = December 13, 2002

| predecessor = Felipe Medalla

| successor = Romulo Neri

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| nationality = Filipino

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| residence =

| alma_mater = University of the Philippines Diliman {{small|(AB, MA, PhD)}}

| occupation = Professor

| profession = Economist

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| caption = Dr. Canlas speaking at a PIDS conference in September 2015

}}

Dante Bondoc Canlas is a Filipino economist and a professor at the UP School of Economics at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He served as Socio-Economic Planning Secretary and concurrently Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority from 2001 to 2002 under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Dr. Canlas was also the Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for Kazakhstan, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Pakistan, and the Philippines from 2003 to 2004.

He earned his B.S. in mathematics, M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of the Philippines, where he was a member of Upsilon Sigma Phi.{{cite news|url=http://www.philstar.com/opinion/431470/upsilonians-hold-12th-world-congress|title=Upsilonians hold 12th world congress|last=Torrevillas|first=Domini M.|work=philstar.com|access-date=2017-09-02}}{{cite news|url=http://www.philstar.com/opinion/229178/upsilon-mystique|title=Upsilon mystique|last=Torrevillas|first=FROM THE STANDS By Domini M.|work=philstar.com|access-date=2017-09-02}} He completed his dissertation "Marital Fertility and Working Wives in the Philippines: An Economic Analysis" in 1978.[https://books.google.com/books?id=iUmxAAAAIAAJ&q=dante+canlas Dissertation title in the Philippine Economic Journal, Volume 20, Issues 46-48] He was Visiting Professor at Northern Illinois University in De Kalb, Illinois and Research Fellow at the prestigious Princeton University in New Jersey.