ANTIQUE’S PRIDE. Hong Kong Consul General Leo Tito Ausan Jr. was promoted Chief of Mission Class 2, which carries an ambassadorial rank, by the Department of Foreign Affairs on Thursday (Sept. 22, 2021). The Antique Provincial Board passed a resolution the following day congratulating Ausan. (Photo courtesy of LT Ausan)
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – An Antiqueño diplomat has brought pride to his province mates following his promotion to an ambassadorial rank.
Leo Tito Ausan, Jr., currently the Consul General in Hong Kong, was promoted by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) early this month to Chief of Mission Class 2, which is equivalent to an ambassadorial rank.
Antique Provincial Board member Errol Santillan, in an interview Saturday, said they unanimously passed a resolution during their virtual session on Thursday, congratulating Ausan.
“The Sanggunian recognizes with pride and joy the noteworthy achievement of Consul General Leo Tito L. Ausan, Jr. for his well-deserved promotion to serve, protect, and promote the Filipinos welfare and integrity globally,” the resolution said.
Ausan, in a message sent to the Philippine News Agency (PNA), said he is “grateful to the Antique provincial board for the resolution”.
Ausan, born in Barangay Mag-aba, Pandan in 1960, is the second child of Leo Tito Urbano Ausan, Sr., an elementary school principal from Pandan, and Columba Rotelo Lunar, a public school teacher from Buenavista, Guimaras.
He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts Major in Political Science degree from Central Philippines University in Jaro, Iloilo and obtained his Law degree at the University of the Philippines-Diliman.
He placed third in the 1995 Foreign Service Officer Examination.
He had been Vice Consul at the Philippine Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa; Consul at the Philippine Embassy in Berlin, Germany; Consul General of the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; and Deputy Consul General in Vancouver, Canada. (PNA)
MANILA, Philippines — Manila Water Co. Inc. has appointed Gigi Iluminada Miguel as its new chief finance officer.
In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange yesterday, Manila
Water said Miguel would assume her position as CFO starting Oct. 1.
Miguel will also serve as treasurer, chief risk office and group director of the company.
She will be replacing Ma. Cecilia Cruzabra who resigned due to personal reasons.
Miguel previously served as the VP and treasurer of tycoon Enrique
Razon’s International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI).
On Wednesday, ICTSI disclosed to the PSE that Miguel resigned from her post.
Based on her LinkedIn account, Miguel has a Master’s degree in
Business Administration from the Ateneo de Manila University. She also
graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of
Science degree in Applied Mathematics, Actuarial Science.
Manila Water recently elected J.V. Emmanuel De Dios as its president
and CEO in line with the firm’s senior management reorganization
efforts.
De Dios was also elected as director and a member of the executive,
as well as the talent and remuneration committees following the
resignation of Christian Martin Gonzalez.
The Razon group officially took over Manila Water in June after acquiring a controlling stake from the Ayala Group in 2020.
As a result, Fernando Zobel stepped down as chairman but remains as
director of the board, while his elder brother Jaime Augusto Zobel de
Ayala fully exited the company as vice chairman and director.
In February 2020, Razon’s Prime Metroline Holdings Inc., now known as
Prime Strategic Holdings Inc., signed an agreement with Manila Water to
subscribe to 820 million common shares at a price of P13 per share.
Through the agreement, the Ayala Group granted proxy rights to Razon,
allowing him to acquire a 51 percent voting interest in Manila Water.
Manila Water serves the east zone, which encompasses parts of Makati, Mandaluyong, Pasig, Pateros, San Juan, Taguig, Marikina, most parts of Quezon City, portions of Manila as well as several towns in Rizal.
Prof. Deo Florence L. Onda, PhD of the UP Marine Science Institute (MSI) was recognized as one of the 40 Gen. T “leader of tomorrow” honorees from the Philippines in 2021, given by Tatler Asia.
Onda was recognized for his contributions to the sciences.
An associate professor and the deputy director for research at MSI,
Onda’s research interests are in microbial biogeography, diversity,
dynamics and trophic interactions, and consequences of changing
conditions using -omics approaches (genomics, transcriptomics and
metagenomics), other molecular methods and advanced techniques in
confocal laser scanning microscopy. He was the first Filipino to descend
into the Emdem Deep in the Philippine Trench on March 23, 2021, on
board the DSV Limiting Factor and in the company of Caladan Oceanic
founder, Victor Vescovo.
Tatler Asia, according to its website (https://www.tatlerasia.com/), is a leading luxury media group with award-winning digital platforms and print magazines. The Gen. T List, started in 2016, is an annual recognition by Tatler Asia of the 300 leaders of tomorrow who are shaping Asia’s future.
Professors from the UP Diliman College of Engineering (COE) received
the 2021 Philippine Association for the Advancement of Science and
Technology (PhilAAST) award for their achievements in their respective
fields.
Professor emeritus Guillermo Q. Tabios III, Ph.D., of the COE
Institute of Civil Engineering, was given the Michael R.I. Purvis Award
for Sustainability Research, and Prof. Joey D. Ocon, Ph.D., of the COE
Department of Chemical Engineering, the David M. Consunji Award for
Engineering Research.
They were among eight recipients announced in a Sept. 6 virtual presser hosted by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and livestreamed on its Facebook page, ahead of PhilAAST’s 70th annual convention from Sept. 7 to 9.
Tabios was honored for “his advocacy in linking sustainability science, policy and management with the use of transdisciplinary approach for sustainable water resources development. This includes his works in 2-D hydraulic modeling of floods, dam-break and reservoir, optimization of reservoirs, pipe network and project sequencing, and staging of large-scale water systems.”
Ocon was recognized for his research excellence and immense
contribution to “the development of novel materials and processes for
clean energy technologies (i.e. fuel cells, batteries, and
electrolyzers), including how these technologies are applied at the
system level.”
The Michael R.I. Purvis Award was established in honor of Dr. Michael
Robert Irvin Purvis, a distinguished energy engineer from the United
Kingdom who served for 20 years at De La Salle University.
The David M. Consunji Award for Engineering Research was established
by PhilAAST and DMCI Holdings, Inc., and aims to recognize outstanding
researchers in the field of engineering.
The PhilAAST is a non-profit national organization of scientists and technologists that aims to promote and broaden the base of scientific advancement in the Philippines through research that “center on promoting the value of science to the community.”
MANILA — The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced
Monday that 113 out of 237 passed the Librarian Licensure Examinations
given this month.
Francisco Fillon Magpantay Jr. of the University of the Philippines Diliman topped the exams with a 90.50 percent rating.
Rebilyn Garcia Roman of City College Of Angeles in Angeles City,
Pampanga (88.70 percent) and Ian Dominic Pasicolan Sipin of UP Diliman
(87.80 percent) took 2nd and 3rd place, respectively.
UP Diliman, St. Paul University-Surigao, Adventist University of the
Philippines, and University of Mindanao-Davao City were the
top-performing schools with 100-percent passing rate.
Maria Araceli “Marcy” Dans is better known as a writer and illustrator of children’s books, having been published in the Philippines and abroad. Her stories, illustrated in watercolor, have focused mainly on the retelling of Filipino folklores and legends.
It was only in the latter part of 2019 that Dans quietly took it upon herself to continue the legacy of her mother, Araceli Limcaco Dans, the master of calado painting in the Philippines, transmuting the same watercolor medium she used as a children’s book illustrator into paintings of fine Filipino lace embroidery.
Unable to return to her Davao City home since the start of the pandemic lockdown in March 2020, Dans found herself painting instead, in the same studio as her 91-year-old mother. Mother and daughter have grown to be each other’s critics.
Dans is holding her first-ever exhibit, “Calado Art: Delicate Watercolor Paintings of Philippine Calado,” on view until Sept. 10 at the Philippine Center, New York.
Dans (born 1954) holds both a Master of Arts in Art History and a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines (UP).
After completing her undergraduate degree, she worked as creative and art director for two private companies before becoming a faculty member at UP in Diliman and Mindanao. She was dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at UP Mindanao when she took her early retirement in 2018.
The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) is now laying the groundwork for the 47th Philippine Business Conference and Expo (PBC&E), the country’s biggest business gathering in November, starting with the choice of real estate trailblazer Jeffrey Ng as conference chair.
Jeffrey Ng
The selection of Ng as 47th PBC&E chair by the PCCI board, led by chamber president Benedicto V. Yujuico, is in sync with the conference’s theme—Innovation PH: Economic Recovery for All on Nov. 17-18.
In this light, Yujuico said the choice of Ng as 47th PBC&E chair couldn’t be more appropriate. Yujuico cited Ng’s economic background and pioneering business spirit, spanning more than 30 years, were the primary criteria in his selection as conference chair.
Ng finished cum laude in economics at the University of the Philippines-Diliman and has a master’s degree in business economics at the University of Asia and the Pacific. He is currently president of UP School of Economics Alumni Association (UPSEAA). He is member of the board of PCCI and Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF). His company, Cathay Land, developed South Forces Golf City and is behind the real estate success story of Astoria Hotels and Resorts and Cathay Metal Corp., a steel manufacturing firm.
The incoming conference chair, Ng, heads Cathay Land Inc. which has turned and is still transforming areas outside Metro Manila into business and commercial hubs of their own.
Known to friends and colleagues in the business community as Jeffrey, Ng was unanimously picked as the 47the PBC&E chair.
“Jeffrey is an innovator and a visionary in real estate and property development,” said Yujuico.
“For instance, he knew early on that the urban sprawl of Metro Manila would extend outside the metropolis, so he ventured in land-banking in the South and developed new thriving townships in Cavite,” Yujuico said.
For his part, Ng said he was “extremely honored” by his selection as chair of the 47th PBC&E, thanking Yujuico and the PCCI board for trusting him.
“I am excited to lead the staging of the conference despite the challenging situation we are in,” Ng said. “I am glad that we are now transitioning to a better normal with the ongoing inoculation of Filipinos,” he said.
The 47th PBC&E, aside from assembling the country’s top business leaders, is expected to generate key policy recommendations that could change old approaches to new crisis, such as the one that the country and everyone are grappling with these days—COVID-19.
Yujuico noted that although the shape which the so-called new normal would take remains uncertain, putting together the best minds in business, as the objective of the 47th PBC&E is, could help bring about new solutions as can be gleaned in the conference theme on innovation.
The PCCI business conference is the annual summit of the Philippines’ business and industry captains and a forum for businesses, clients and government to connect with each other and create paths for business and economic growth and solutions to evolving problems.
But in the middle of the pandemic, PCCI is thrusting innovation at the battlefront in the war on COVID-19 as the health crisis redrew the Philippine business and economic map.
COVID-19 is not only sending thousands of people to hospitals or isolation rooms but also unleashed a devastating battery of revenue loss for the government, income decline for private businesses and disappearance of millions of jobs.
The impact was so severe it caused the Philippine economy to suffer its worst contraction since World War 2, the labor sector to see unprecedented job loss numbers and MSMEs—the backbone of employment—to witness shop closures, layoffs and income loss that haven’t been seen in decades, even at the height of the Asian financial crisis.
While it is traditional for PCCI to set its conference themes according to trends and developments in business, the 47th PBC&E theme shines the spotlight on innovation because the new challenges of these trying times cannot be solved by traditional means.
The theme Innovation PH: Economic Recovery for All is a recognition that to be able to swim above the troubled waters everyone is finding themselves in nowadays, new strategies have to be employed primarily with the help of technology, particularly IT, that would give birth to new tools to fight a new enemy—COVID-19.
This focus on innovation was the brainchild of the current chamber president, Yujuico, in keeping with the adage that the only thing constant in life is change.
The annual business conference is a key way for PCCI to pool minds, ideas, plans, proposals, papers, research, studies and efforts for the common good, the part of the theme that says “Economic Recovery for All.”
Discussions at these conferences center on policies and programs that would make a difference and build a foundation on which a sustainable way of doing business in the future could stand on.
Discussions and proposals were also expected to shine light on ways to recover lost ground and catch up with an objective by Ambisyon 2040 for the Philippines to become a middle-income economy in 20 years.
Among the highly anticipated segments of the conference is a session with pioneers and global leaders in innovation and technology and one with candidates for president in 2022.
UPCPH congratulates Dr. Steven Muncy (MPH 1995, DrPH 2003) for being one of the 5 recipients of the 2021 Ramon Magsaysay Award in Southeast Asia.
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