PERSONAL INFORMATION:

• Born in Cagayan de Oro, Northern Mindanao, 17 June 1939

• Married to Marita F. Mier of Zambales and Baler, Quezon and

gifted with 2 sons

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

• Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan - (A.B. sociology and English)

• Ateneo de Manila – Political Science

• Ateneo de Manila – MBA

• Scholar at Columbia University School of International Affairs in New York

• Henry George School of Social Science - Economics

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Active in the reform movement since the 1960s, he was secretary-general of the

Christian Social Movement until Martial Law

• He made his mark as a political organizer and campaign operative during the

heydays of the late

• Vice President Emannuel N. Pelaez and Senators Raul Manglapus and Manuel

Manahan

• also a book publisher

• taught history and social science at the Ateneo,

• active in NAMFREL and the Bishops-Businessmen’s Conference.

* His interest in politics led him to observe at close range the American presidential

system as well as the European parliamentary models, including Israel’s, and

traveled widely in the course of work in Unesco and the United Nations. He returned

in 1998 to revive his childhood interest in ranching (in his farm in Bukidnon) while

writing for newspapers.

* In 2004 he received the UNICEF-PPI Award for Most Outstanding Column on Children

(community category) and went on to write a book on the critical factors that

shape our politics entitled, Trapo Governance and the Cha Cha Conspiracy: More

Power to Those in Power, None for the People, published by Cacho Publishing House

(National Book Store) in 2005.

* His next book is due out from the Capitol University Press next month, entitled, A

NATION OF ZOMBIES: Powerless Grassroots, Clueless Elites and the Cycle of

Corruption in the Philippines.

* Today he is president and national convenor of Gising Barangay Movement Inc.

(formerly, Task Force Good Governance), an advocacy for empowering the

grassroots.