President, Asian institute of Taxation 

Dean Aguirre is a 10th placer in the CPA Licensure Examination, engaged in tax consultancy and a Continuing Professional Development Resource person in taxation on Training Designs on Taxation accredited by the Professional Regulations Commission.

She was a Professorial Lecturer in Taxation at the University of the Philippines where she received a Teaching Excellence Award in 2012, for having handled batches of students who passed the CPA Licensure Exams with a batting average of 100% for several years.

She is a former Deputy Commissioner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, former Dean of Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance of the Far Eastern University, former Member of the Board of Accountancy, former Executive Director of PICPA, former President of the ASEAN Federation of Accountants, and incumbent President of the Asian Institute of Taxation.