Annabelle N. Herrera is the President and CEO of ECOSYS, the only Company in the Philippines that has a full range of in-house resettlement planning expertise and services, including but not limited to Parcellary and As-Built Survey, Independent Property Appraisal, Inventory of Losses, Stakeholder Engagement and Public Participation, Socio-Economic Profiling, Livelihood Restoration and Improvement, and Gender and Development, among others.

Annabelle holds a Master’s degree in Geology and started as an Environmental Specialist in the late 90’s for various major infrastructure and mining projects. In 2000, she pioneered as a consulting Resettlement Specialist, together with two other experts who were tasked to prepare Resettlement Action Plans for projects under the IBRD-Funded National Roads Improvement and Management Program (Phase I) of DPWH. From then she continued to be actively involved in resettlement planning for various major infrastructure projects such as national roads, expressways, railways, and bridges. Although backed up by experts she continues to undertake almost all, if not all Stakeholder Consultation Meetings with affected persons.

From 2014-2016 she was deeply involved, as DPWH Adviser on R-O-W Matters and assisted in the drafting of technical paper that was used by the House of Representatives and Senate of the Philippines in drafting R.A. 10752, which was passed into law on 07 March 2016. All social safeguards feature of the prevailing law on Right-of-Way acquisition were from her contributions. From then she has been involved in the drafting of procedural manuals on Right-of-Way acquisition, as well as training of government officers and staff salient provisions of the law and the use of the manuals. She continues to serve as Resource Person in the latest amendments to the R-O-W legislation.