Maria Nieves R. Confesor

Maria Nieves R. Confesor, commonly known as Nieves Confesor, is the former Executive Director of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) TeaM Energy Center for Bridging Leadership, a private educational institution based in the Philippines.

She was the first woman to assume the position of Dean at AIM since the Institute's foundation in 1968.

Education Confesor earned a Bachelor of Arts in Literary Studies, magna cum laude and class valedictorian from Maryknoll College (now Miriam College) in 1971. She obtained a Master of Business Administration from the Ateneo Graduate School of Business of the Ateneo de Manila University in 1978.

She earned a Master of Public Policy and Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, as an Edward S. Mason Fellow, in 1990. She also took special courses in Labor and Employment and in Asian Studies at the University of the Philippines; and in International Economics, Negotiations, Women in Politics at Harvard University.

Confesor failed to address the situation. She resigned and was immediately replaced in her cabinet post.