Emanuel V. Soriano was the 14th president of the University of the Philippines. He was one of the pioneer faculty members of the College of Business Administration, and among the first Filipinos to be sent to the United States for advanced studies in business together with former College of Business Administration deans Jaime C. Laya (who was the 5th governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas from 1981 to 1984), Magdaleno B. Albarracin, Jr. (now member of the Board of Regents), and Rafael A.