President Aquino appoints new Food Security czar, 26 other officials

On October 1, 2015, President Benigno S. Aquino III signed the appointment papers of 27 public servants to various executive offices.

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Among them is Secretary Fredelita Guiza, the new Presidential Assistant on Food Security and Agricultural Modernization under the Office of the President. This comes after former Secretary Francis Pangilinan resigned last month to run for the Senate under the administration party.

Reynaldo Antonio de la Paz Laguda was also promoted to Undersecretary at the Department of Education, following the demise of Francisco Varela last August.

Lawyer Erdelyne Go, meanwhile, was named Deputy Chief Presidential Legal Counsel, also with the rank of Undersecretary.

Completing the list of newly appointed and/or promoted public officials in their respective departments and agencies are the following:

• Teresita Cortez Fortuna – Director IV, Department of Science and Technology;
• Constante Acuña Llanes, Jr. – Director IV, Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH);
• Maria Nieva Sison de la Paz, Acting Director IV, DPWH (vice Bienadel Elizabeth Yap);
• Celia Carpio Carlos – Director III, Department of Health (DOH);
• Maria Lourdes Caballero Santiago, Acting Deputy Director General for Field Regulatory Operations, Food and Drug Administration, DOH;
• Nordy Lisondra Plaza – Director III, Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC);
• Romulo Villegas Bernardes – Director II, Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), DOTC;
• Rodolfo Los Baños Jaucian – Director II, LTFRB, DOTC;
• Robert Dosono Peig – Director II, DOTC;
  Teofilo Estrada Guadiz III – Director II, LTFRB, DOTC;
• Francis Ray Arnibal Almora – Director I, LTFRB, DOTC;
• Jose Eduardo Leyson Natividad, Acting Director IV (Regional Director), DOTC (vice Celina Claver);
• Adeline Tejada de Castro, Acting Director IV, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE);
• Jesus Gabriel Capili Domingo, Acting Deputy Administrator (Deputy Executive Director V), Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, DOLE;
• Englebert Caguioa Lasang, Member (representing the Workers Sector), Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board, Region IV-A, National Wages and Productivity Commission, DOLE (vice Jesus Villamor);
• Josephine Rima-Santiago, Director General, Intellectual Property Office, Department of Trade and Industry;
• Emmanuel Niño Wee Ang, Foreign Trade Service Officer II, Philippine Foreign Trade Service Corps, DTI (vice John Paul Iñigo);
• Jhoaden Guelos Lucero, Local Government Operations Officer VIII, Department of Interior and Local Government;
• Ireneo Galicia, Government Corporate Counsel, Office of the Government Corporate Counsel, Department of Justice (vice Raoul Creencia);
• Dexter Bun-Go Calizar, Member, Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board (vice Jose Luis Martin Gascon);
• Jose Alejandre Payumo III, Deputy Secretary General, Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (vice Wendel Avisado);
• Arlyn Sicangco Villanueva, Member (Professional Regulatory Board of Accountancy), Professional Regulation Commission (vice Maria Elenita Cabrera);
• Robert Samoy Sac, Chairperson, Professional Regulatory Board of Architecture, PRC (vice Rolando Cordero); and
• Robert Medina Mirafuente, Member (Professional Regulatory Board of Architecture), PRC (vice Yolanda Reyes). PND (hdc)