Mr. Sanchez is a Foreign Officer at the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs and is currently serving as Consul and Head of the Economic Section of the Embassy of the Philippines in Tokyo. He has gained considerable experience in international trade and investment law as a Special Assistant in the Department of Foreign Affairs for eleven years, where he advised the Department on legal and policy issues of international economic relations. He also has particular experience in free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations, having represented the Department in several ASEAN FTAs, the Philippines-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (PJEPA) and in the Philippines-EU Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA), as well as in WTO dispute settlement proceedings.

Ms. Poblacion has advised and assisted local and multinational clients on doing business in the Philippines, including pre-establishment, post-incorporation, compliance and corporate housekeeping, dissolution, labor and intellectual property law, among others. She specializes in Philippine corporate law and trademarks law.
Ms. Poblacion graduated cum laude and salutatorian from the University of the Philippines, College of Law, and placed sixth in the 2010 Philippine Bar examinations. She has worked for Poblador Bautista & Reyes Law Offices, a Philippine law firm, and is presently an attorney at the Kuroda Law Offices.