Senior Partner, Deloitte & Touche The first Asian woman admitted to the partner ranks of the then Big 8 in the United States, Ms. Aurora Rubin is a senior partner of Deloitte & Touche LLP. In the past decade, she has been on secondment to the firm’s global organization where she has held various leadership roles. Today, Ms. Rubin is the Global Chief Ethics Officer and Chief of Staff to the Global Managing Partner of Regulatory & Risk. Ms. Rubin has had a variety of professional experiences that uniquely position her for her current roles. Aside from handling a diverse client portfolio at the Deloitte US firm, she had been the Global Director of Auditing Services, Global Managing Partner of Risk, National Director of Professional Development, and National Technical Consultation Partner. In the latter role, she was a key member of the supervising team that conducted the first firm-on-firm peer reviews in the US. Ms. Rubin obtained her audit field experience in the New York office of Deloitte & Touche LLP, but she was introduced to the profession at SGV & Co., the largest professional services firm in the Philippines where she was born and raised. In 2001, she was recognized as an outstanding alumna of the University of the Philippines, where she had obtained a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree, cum laude. Ms. Rubin has served on the Board of Trustees of several not-for-profit organizations, including The Center for Asian Pacific American Women (formerly known as the Asian Pacific American Women’s Leadership Institute), the Alliance for Children & Families, and the Council on Accreditation, as well as the Finance Committee of the United Ways of Tri-State.