Janet Braganza Abuel (born March 13, 1971) is a Filipino lawyer, accountant and public servant who, from March to August 2019, served as acting secretary of the Department of Budget and Management in the Duterte administration following the appointment of former-Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

[1] From 1987 to 1991, she attended Saint Louis University in Baguio where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree major in accounting.

[2] For her post graduate studies, she attended Baguio Colleges Foundation (currently known as the University of the Cordilleras) where she earned a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1998.

Abuel was also a part-time instructor at the University of the Cordilleras College of Law from 1999 to 2010 and authored the handbook Bar Review Methods and Techniques, 2003 Edition.

[1] Abuel started working at the DBM in 1996 as a budget analyst of the department's Cordillera Administrative Region office in Baguio.

[1] After serving for about a decade in the regional office, she was appointed by then-President Benigno Aquino III as assistant secretary of the department, replacing Ruby Alvarez.

[4] Following the death of BSP Governor Nestor Espenilla Jr. in February 2019, then-Secretary Diokno was appointed to serve his unexpired term.