Arsenio Molina Balisacan is a Filipino economist and academic serving as the first chairperson of the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC), the country's antitrust agency enforcing prohibitions against anti-competitive business acts and practices. Prior to his appointment in the commission, he served as the Philippine Socioeconomic Planning Secretary from May 2012 to January 2016 under the administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III. As Socioeconomic Planning Secretary, he concurrently served as director-general of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), and as chairman of the boards of the Philippine Statistics Authority, Philippine Institute for Development Studies, Philippine Center for Economic Development, and Public-Private Partnership Center.