Juanita Amatong (née Dy; born March 23, 1935)[1] is a Filipino banker, educator, and former public servant.
She previously served as member of the Monetary Board of the Philippines, a policy-making body of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines), and former Secretary of Finance in the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo administration.
[1] She also served as the first woman executive director in the World Bank Group from the Philippines.
[4] Prior to her entry in the government service, she worked as an associate professor at Silliman University from 1959 to 1960, as tax economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1963 to 1968, and as a lecturer at the Andres Bonifacio College in Dipolog, Zamboanga del Norte in 1968–1971.
[1] She is married to Ernesto Sybico Amatong, a former member of the Batasang Pambansa, former congressman of Zamboanga del Norte's 2nd legislative district, and one of the delegates to the 1971 Constitutional Convention.