INDEPENDENT
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
- BA Business Administration/History-Political Science (De La Salle University)
- MA Public Administration (Harvard University)
- MBA (Ateneo de Manila University)
PUBLIC SERVICE RECORD
- Secretary of Tourism (1987-1989)
- Secretary of Interior & Local Government (1992-1996)
- Chairman, National Police Commission
- Addressed corruption in DoT and several officials charged with embezzlement, fraud, extortion, bribery
- Managed Camp John Hay to make it more attractive to private sector
- Spokesman and Deputy Campaign Manager in charge of media operation for presidential candidate Fidel V. Ramos
PLATFORMS
- Good governance –analyzing/updating good government laws (Local Government Code, Code of Conduct for Public Officials, Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, Administrative Code)
- Criminal Justice system reform
- Human and Ecological security
- Poverty reduction and national development
- Internal security, public safety, national defense
- Pro-equal legal rights and same sex marriage
MISCELLANEOUS
- One of the leaders of the West Philippine Sea Coalition, vocal against China’s “bullying” of the Philippines
- Non-Executive Director of Manila North Tollways Corporation
- Independent Director of Pepsi Cola Products Philippines, Inc.
- Director of Sun Life of Canada (Phils) Inc.
- Sun Life Financial Plans, Inc.
- Sun Life Balanced Fund, Inc.
- Managements Association of the Philippines
- Anti-Marcos, thought said of Imee & Bongbong’s “we need to bring closure to an open wound that hasn’t been closed.”
- Wants acknowledgment of “mistakes of the past”
- Initially included in Duterte-Cayetano state but opted to run independently
