Board Trustee
It was an honors degree in Economics that led Lisa Guerrero Nakpil to employment in a large Filipino investment house and the writing of a book about money and how to handle it. As a result of this best-selling book on consumer economics, the first of its kind in the Philippines, she was offered a regular column in a top daily newspaper.
Since then, her horizons have broadened considerably, and she has applied these foundational experiences to a wide variety of subjects.
Nakpil would next be recruited for work at Entertainment Philippines, the organization that put together the first Manila International Film Festival and would join various missions to find film co-production and other entertainment opportunities for the country’s cultural institutions.
She would continue to write for different newspapers and magazines as a lifestyle columnist and later, features editor. Nakpil would also contribute to regional publications.
This would lead her to establish her own public relations firm for both Philippine and Hong Kong corporations in the fields of banking, food, fashion, and cable TV, among others.
Nakpil would next become a music entrepreneur, discovering and managing talent that would become among the chart-topping and critically-acclaimed musicians of their generation.
She would become a record and concert producer, tour manager across the Philippines as well as in Singapore and Indonesia. As a recognized youth marketing expert, Nakpil would also become marketing and production consultant for the concerts of various major foreign acts that would come to the country.
In recent years, Nakpil has become part of the art community of the country, as a curator, art history researcher and writer, as well as project manager for art books and catalogues and exhibitions. Nakpil has continued to write for a major newspaper about Philippine art and culture.
As a public historian in popularizing Filipino history, she would be appointed to the Board of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines in 2020.
She recently joined the Board of International Arts & Artists, Washington D.C. in May 2021, and is a resident of Manila.