SIXTOK ROXAS, an economist with an abiding in the optimal role of communities in the management of resources, is chariperson of the Foundation for Community Organization and Management Technology a non-governmental organistion in the Philippines. His across-the-board professional of the American Express International Bank in the early 1970s.

Through his stint in the philippines' government service, Roxas was pivotal in pirvatising the Industrial Development Centr, a productivity centre (a vehivle for development supported by the US Agecy for Intrenational Development) that was renamed the Economic Development Foundaion. With hte help of a budget of approximately $4 million, the foundation has sponsored hte Philippine Business for Social Progress, an organisation with a 'radical' social-business brief that is self-explanatiry.