Jose Marie Gonzalez, Jr. works on the project 'Evaluating Financial Literacy Training in the Philippines (Province of Sorsogon)'. Before joining IPA in 2009, he worked with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (Philippines) as Project Evaluation Officer II, and Accion Contra el Hambre as Head of Project) on Disaster Risk Reduction Project in the Bicol Region (Philippines). Jose holds a Master in Development Management (MDM) degree from the Asian Institute of Management (AIM, Makati, Philippines) and BS in Agricultural Engineering from the Bicol University, College of Agriculture (Albay, Philippines)