Ms. Pia Roman Tayag is the Director of the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA). In this role, Pia leads the team that supports the work of Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands as the UNSGSA.

Prior to joining the Office of the UNSGSA, Ms. Tayag spent 18 years at Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), most recently as Managing Director of the BSP’s principal advocacy office for financial inclusion, financial education and consumer protection. In that capacity, she crafted policies and regulations, developed partnerships for financial education, strengthened consumer protection, built stakeholder relations, and implemented the National Financial Inclusion Strategy.