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- PHILIPPINES:
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- J.R.
Nereus O.
ACOSTA
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(Workshop Presenter)
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- Hon.
J.R. NEREUS O. ACOSTA is a member of the Philippine House
of Representatives and vice president for Mindanao of the
Liberal Party. He received his Master’s Degree in
international relations and political studies at Indiana
University in the United States and his PhD in government
and political science as an East West Center Grantee at
the University of Hawaii in the United States. He also
holds certificates from the Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University, where he completed an intensive
program on policy and leadership in 1999 and on
environmental economics in 2002.
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Edgardo J.
ANGARA
- Keynote
Speaker)
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Senator Edgardo J. Angara is a distinguished legislator,
lawyer, educator, banker, and art patron. He has a long
history of public service, having serving as president of
the University of the Philippines, Senate President,
Executive Secretary in the Office of the President,
chairman of the Philippine National Bank, and Secretary of
Agriculture. He has also been the president of the Laban
ng Demokratikong Party (LDP) since 1998. Senator Angara
founded the Angara, Concepcion, Cruz, Regala and Abello
Law Offices, better known as ACCRA Law, one of the
country’s most prestigious law firms.
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- In
the 1992 senatorial elections he placed third, and from
1993 to 1995 he served as Senate President, the third
highest post in the Philippines. As a legislator, Senator
Angara has authored and sponsored many landmark laws in
education, health, the arts, culture, social welfare, and
agriculture. He was elected again as senator in the May
2001 elections, garnering the most number of votes from
the opposition. In congress, he continues to promote
reform measures such as the Absentee Voting Bill, Campaign
Finance Reform Bill, Political Party Act, and Electoral
Modernization Bill. Senator Angara is a graduate of the
University of the
Philippines
(Bachelor of Laws, 1958) and the University of Michigan in
the United States (Masters of Law, 1964).
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Resurreccion Z. BORRA
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(Workshop Presenter)
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Commissioner Resurreccion Z. Borra is a commissioner on
the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and serves as
chairman of the Board of Trustees of the COMELEC Provident
Fund. He is also currently a panelist and lecturer at
CESB “Gabay” Program and has served as a member of the
faculty at several universities in the Philippines. Prior
to becoming commissioner, Commissioner Borra was a
consultant to COMELEC from 2000 to 2001 and the executive
director from 1992 to 2000. Commissioner Borra has served
as a facilitator and resource person at many missions and
training events both in the Philippines and abroad.
Commissioner Borra received is Master’s Degree in public
administration from UP Visayas and his Bachelor’s Degree
in law (cum laude) from the University of San Agustin.
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Ramon C. CASIPLE
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(Workshop Presenter)
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- Mr.
Ramon C. Casiple is the executive director of the
Institute for Political and Electoral Reform (IPER). He
has served as a board member at IPER for six years and as
acting executive director before becoming regular
executive director in June 2002. He is also the
chairperson of the Consortium on Electoral Reforms, a
national coalition of civil society electoral reform
organizations and activists. As a human rights advocate,
Mr. Casiple has been a consultant and a member of the
Council of Leaders of the Philippine Alliance of Human
Rights Advocates (PAHRA). He is also currently the
secretary-general of Claimants 1081 and a consultant on
human rights with Rep. Loretta Ann P. Rosales, chairperson
of the House Committee on Civil, Political, and Human
Rights. Mr. Casiple headed the Executive Committee for
the 2002 National Election Reform Summit and the 2003
National Voter Education Summit. He was a resource person
on electoral and constitutional reform at the First
All-Parties Conference of Philippine Political Parties in
May 2002.
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Sheila CORONEL
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(Workshop Presenter)
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- Ms.
Sheila Coronel was only fourteen when martial law was
declared in the Philippines and freedom of the press
severely curtailed. Intending to enter law, she changed
her mind after the Aquino assassination. She covered the
movement to bring the Marcos dictatorship down and
chronicled the EDSA revolution. In 1989, she and eight
like-minded colleagues founded the Philippine Center for
Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), where she has been the
executive director. Using painstaking and time-consuming
research, Ms. Coronel and her partners developed in-depth
stories of public interest on subjects hidden behind
layers of power. They have marketed the stories through
the mainstream press and mentored younger reporters.
Under her leadership, PCIJ has produced a formidable body
of work probing controversial issues in the nation’s life,
and spared no legitimate target. PCIJ’s scrupulous
reporting of the anomalies in the Estrada presidency
helped set the stage for eventual impeachment. Ms.
Coronel received her Bachelor’s Degree in political
science from the University of the
Philippines
and her Master’s Degree in political sociology from the
London School of Economics and Political Science in
England.
She is author of numerous publications on the Philippine
politics, media, and corruption, and is also the recipient
of the 2003 Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism,
literature, and creative communication arts.
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Benjamin I.
ESPIRITU
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(Workshop Presenter)
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- Dr.
Benjamin I. Espiritu is a former Governor of the
Province of
Oriental Mindoro
and is a member of the “Think Tank Group” of the
Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) party and provincial
chairperson of the NPC in his province. He is also the
chairperson of the Business and Governance Department of
the De La Salle University Professional Schools Graduate
School of Business. In addition, he is a practicing
certified public accountant and president and CEO of
Change Management International, Inc. Dr. Espiritu serves
as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank on
reengineering the financial management system of the
Philippine Judiciary and is a senior adviser to the
provincial government of Oriental Mindoro. Dr. Espiritu
earned his PhD in public administration from the
University of Santo Tomas, Master’s Degree in national
security administration from the National Defense College,
MBA from De La Salle University, and his Bachelor’s Degree
in science of commerce and accounting also from De La
Salle University.
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- Jose
Luis Martin C. GASCON
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(Workshop Chairperson)
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- Hon.
Jose Luis Martin C. Gascon is the Department of Education
Undersecretary for Legal Affairs and Legislative Liaison.
He is the former executive director of the National
Institute for Policy Studies (NIPS), an independent
non-government organization conducting research, training,
and advocacy programs on liberal politics within the
Philippine political context. He was also an assistant
professorial lecturer at the department of political
science of the Manila Campus of the De La Salle
University. Hon. Gascon studied at the University of the
Philippines for his degrees in philosophy and law. He
also obtained his Master’s Degree in law from the
University
of Cambridge in England as a British Chevening Scholar.
His fields of interest are comparative political and
electoral systems, human rights, and transitions to
democracy.
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- Hon.
Gascon was a student leader fighting the Marcos
dictatorship leading up to the 1986 People Power
Revolution. He became the youngest delegate to the
Constitutional Commission that prepared the current
Philippine constitution. He also sat in the House of
Representatives of the 8th Congress during the Aquino
administration. He was awarded the 2001 Benigno S. Aquino
Fellowship in the field of public service. He presently
serves as co-convener of a network of organizations
preparing to launch a community website on electoral
reforms. He is a member of the Liberal Party and was the
chair of the party’s Commission on Public Policy and
Advocacy. Hon. Gascon was a participant in the first
NDI-CALD regional political party workshop in January
2002.
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Telibert C. LAOC
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(Workshop Presenter)
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- Mr.
Telibert C. Laoc is the executive director of National
Citizen’s Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL), a
non-partisan, nationwide organization of individual
citizens and civic, religious, professional, business,
labor, educational, youth, and non-government
organizations in the Philippines, voluntarily working for
the cause of free, orderly, and honest elections. He is a
co-convener and head of the secretariat of the Private
Sector Committee for the Automation of the 2004
Elections. From 2000 to 2002, he was also the private
sector representative to the Advisory Council of the
Commission on Elections. He has been part of various
international electoral engagements as an observer,
trainer, and resource person around the world. He is the
recipient of the “2003 Outstanding Chapter Achiever” in
the field of electoral reforms awarded by the University
of the Philippines Alumni Association, Cebu Chapter
Foundation.
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Francisco A. MAGNO
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- Dr.
Francisco A. Magno is the executive director at the
Institute of Governance of De La Salle University and an
associate professor in the political science department at
De La Salle University. He also serves as an advisor to
the Southeast Asian Conflict Studies Network of the
Philippines and as project director of the “corporate,
social, and environmental responsibility” research project
of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Dr.
Magno is the author of numerous publications on good
governance, environmental, and democratization issues. He
received the “Outstanding Young Scientist” award from the
National Academy of Science and Technology of the
Philippines in 2002 and the “Philip Jacob Peace Research
Award” from the Spark Matsunaga Institute of Peace at the
University of Hawaii in 1996. Dr. Magno received his PhD
in political science from the
University of
Hawaii
at Manoa in the United States. He received and his
Master’s Degree and Bachelor’s Degree both in political
science from the University of the Philippines, Dilliman.
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Victor Andres C. MANHIT
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- Prof.
Victor Andres C. Manhit was Undersecretary for External
Affairs and Special Concerns of the Department of
Education, Culture, and Sports (DECS) from 1998 to 2001,
and Deputy Secretary for Administrative and Financial
Services of the Philippine Senate from 1996 to 1998. He
is presently the executive director of the LABAN (Laban ng
Demokratikong Pilipino or LDP) Party Institute, a post he
has held since 1994. Prof. Manhit is also currently a
member of the faculty of the Political Science Department
of De La Salle University-Manila, and a political and
policy consultant to opposition leader Senator Edgardo J.
Angara and to the Senate Committee on Constitutional and
Electoral Reforms. Prof. Manhit was a participant in the
first NDI-CALD regional political party workshop in
January 2002.
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- Joel
ROCAMORA
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- Dr.
Joel Rocamora is the executive director of Institute for
Popular Democracy. He has served as a consultant to the
UNDP Program on Poverty Alleviation and the Center for
Social Policy and Public Affairs (Ateneo University), and
as director of the Philippine Resource Center in
Berkeley,
California
in the United States. He was the associate director of
Transnational Institute, a research institute established
to promote international co-operation by analyzing and
finding possible solutions to such global problems as
militarism and conflict, poverty and marginalization,
social injustice, and environmental degradation. Dr.
Rocamora earned his Bachelor’s Degree in political science
from the University of the Philippines and PhD in
politics, Asian studies and international relations from
Cornell University in New York in the United States.
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Loretta Ann P.
ROSALES
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(Workshop Presenter)
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- Hon.
Loretta Ann P. Rosales is a congresswoman representing the
AKBAYAN Party List.
She was the president of the JRC Faculty Union and was
elected founding chair of the Alliance of Concerned
Teachers-Philippines (ACT-Philippines), an umbrella
organization of teachers from state colleges and
universities, private schools, and public schools covering
all levels of education. She also served as director of
the Popular Struggles Commission (PSC) under the Bagong
Alyansang Makabayan. She was tasked to coordinate the
multi-sectoral program of BAYAN for the marginal and
under-represented members of the organization -- farmers,
laborers, urban poor, indigenous communities, fisherfolk,
students, and teachers.
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Hon. Rosales was elected as executive director for the
Institute for Political and Electoral Reform (IPER).
Together with the Institute for Politics and Governance (IPG)
and the Institute for Popular Democracy (IPD), she lobbied
hard for the enactment of the party-list bill as provided
for in the 1987 Constitution. In 1995, congress passed RA
7941, the Party-List Act, into law. She was the founding
president of CLAIMANTS 1081, an organization of victims of
human rights violations under the Marcos regime and was
elected president of the Partido ng Bayan, the political
party closely associated with BAYAN.
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- Jose
A. RUFINO
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- Hon.
Jose A. Rufino is the presidential liaison officer for
political affairs (with Cabinet rank) in the Office of the
President of the Philippines. Previously, he served as
chairperson and CEO at Value Capital Management
Corporation and chairperson of URDEC Holdings
Cooperation. Hon. Rufino studied political science and
history at
Lincoln
University
and human relations and organizational behavior at the
University of San Francisco, both in the United States.
Hon. Rufino is involved in numerous civic organizations,
including the Community Development and Economic
Foundation, the Center for Christian-Muslim Democracy, and
the National Movement of Young Legislators Foundation. He
is also the national executive director and vice-president
for finance of the Lakas-NUCD-UMDP party, and past
president of NUCD-UMDP.
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