MANILA – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has named the new members of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) National Commission of the Philippines (UNACOM or PH NatCom).
The list of new UNACOM members representing the government organization was released by the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) in its official Facebook page on Saturday.
Education Secretary Sonny Angara, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority director general Jose Francisco Benitez, Commission on Higher Education chairperson J. Prospero de Vera III, and Bangsamoro Education Minister Mohagber Iqbal will serve as members of the UNACOM Committee on Education.
Named UNACOM Committee on Social and Human Sciences members were Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan, Philippine Commission on Women executive director Khay Ann Magundayao-Borlado, and National Statistician Claire Dennis Mapa.
Marcos picked National Museum of the Philippines director Jeremy Robert Barns, Tourism Secretary Christina Frasco, and National Commission for Culture and the Arts chairperson Victorino Manalo, acting Trade Secretary Ma. Cristina Roque as members of UNACOM Committee on Culture.
Environment Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga and Science and Technology Secretary Renato Solidum Jr. were appointed UNACOM Committee on Science and Technology members.
Marcos tapped Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino chairperson Arthur Casanova, Information and Communications Technology Secretary Ivan John Uy and National Academy of Science and Technology-Engineering Sciences and Technology and Division chairperson Alvin Culaba as members of the UNACOM Committee on Communication and Information.
Established by virtue of Republic Act 621 signed in 1951, UNESCO’s original mandate was to serve as an advisory and liaison body bridging the work of relevant Philippine partners to UNESCO’s own work in educational, scientific and cultural matters and concerns.
UNACOM’s mandate further evolved to include a role in the formulation of policy feedback.
Other appointees
Meantime, Sarah Mae Cruz, Jennifer Fandialan-Legaspi, and Jane Yu were appointed assistant Solicitor Generals; Rosalinda Bautista as deputy National Statistician; Mariflor Castillo as special prosecutor at the Ombudsman’s office; Felicitas Bay as Migrant Workers undersecretary; Farwa Hombre as Health assistant secretary; Reymundo de Guzman Jr. as chair of the Office of Transportation Cooperatives.
Marcos also named new appointees to the Department of Agrarian Reform, including Rodolfo Castil Jr. (assistant secretary); Abdullah Balindong and Elpidio Santos (Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officers II); and Josephine Aguinaldo and Virginia Batosalem (Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officers I).
At the Department of Education, Roger Masapol was appointed assistant secretary; Paolo Mikael Quilala as Director IV; Guia del Valle-Ramoso as Director III; and Gaudencio Aljibe Jr., Juan Araojo Jr., Cynthia Ayles, Anelito Bongcawil, Melanie Estacio, Soraya Faculo, Jinky Firman, Nicasio Frio, Rommel Jandayan, Ernesto Servillon Jr., Bernadette Susvilla, Ferdinand Sy, and Novelyn Vilchez as schools division superintendents.
Marocs designated Silvestre Barrameda Jr., Yvonne Purisima Flores, and Juan Pulhin as new members of the Climate Change Commission’s People Survival Fund Board, representing the non-government organizations, business sector, and the academe and scientific community, respectively.
Carmen Leonor Alcantara and Roy Mahinay were appointed members of the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council. Alcantara will represent affected landowners in Mindanao, while Mahinay will serve as representative of agrarian reform beneficiaries in Visayas.
Francisco Gil Garcia will join the Philippine Rice Research Institute’s Board of Trustees to represent the academic community, while Ericson Velasquez will represent the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) Community.
Dante Elcinas and Kenneth Fabila were named members of the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board, representing the workers sector in the Bicol Region and the employers sector in Eastern Visayas, respectively.
Glady Bunao will serve as member of the National Authority for Child Care, representing the non-government organizations; Romeo Racadio as Director IV at the National Security Council; Rosalinda Chiong as Director II at the National Bureau of Investigation; and Emmanuel Ferrer, Norman Uyvico, and Remedios Vegim-Teves as Directors II at the Labor department.
Marcos also named Janet Quizon as Director III at the Science and Technology department; Gloriece Glen Do as Deputy Executive Director III at the Philippine Commission on Sports Scuba Diving; and Frances Cabana as Director IV at the NEDA. (PNA)
