Lehar Nikolai Buncio has moved into financial regulation after more than two decades in banking, taking over as Insurance Commission deputy commissioner in charge of the Financial Examination Group.
Buncio assumed the post on Sept. 7 after taking his oath before Finance Secretary Frederick Go.
He was previously senior director and head of transaction banking at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group and held senior roles at Deutsche Bank Manila, including vice president and head of global banking.
Buncio began his banking career at Standard Chartered Bank in 2002 and later worked at Bank of America in Los Angeles and Wells Fargo in California.
Before entering banking, he served as a senior political officer to then-Senator Robert Jaworski from June 1998 to January 2001.
Buncio is also a professor at Miriam College and holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of the Philippines, where he also studied at the College of Arts and Sciences and School of Economics.
