Amenah "Mina" Flaminiano Pangandaman (born December 25, 1977) is a Filipina economist who is the Secretary of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) of the Philippines since June 30, 2022.
Currently, she is pursuing an Executive Master of Public Administration from the London School of Economics.
She climbed up the ranks until eventually becoming chief of staff to former Senate president Edgardo Angara in 2007.
[4][6] Pangandaman had served as a budget official during Benjamin Diokno's time as DBM chief becoming assistant secretary from 2016 to 2018 and undersecretary from 2018 to 2019.
[6] During that stint, she was the group head of the Office of the Secretary and was a “key mover” in the preparation, implementation, and monitoring of the General Appropriations Act or national budget.