Marcos appoints new officials in various agencies, GOCCs
President Marcos has appointed new officials in various agencies and government-owned or controlled corporations, including former interior and local government undersecretary Jonathan Malaya who was named assistant director-general of the National Security Council.
The Presidential Communications Office announced the appointment of Malaya and several other officials in a Facebook post yesterday.
Malaya was a senior lecturer at the University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance, where he taught courses in public accountability, ethics in the public service, metropolitan and regional governance, and public policy.
He is a former executive director of the Local Government Development Institute – a think tank and training institute that promotes excellence in local government.
Malaya has also worked for nine government agencies in his 25 years in the public service.
Marcos also appointed Diorella Maria Sotto-Antonio as chairman of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board and Genevieve Velicaria-Guevarra, sister of Presidential Communications Secretary
Cheloy Garafil, as assistant secretary of the agriculture department.
Other new appointees in the Department of Agriculture are Celso Olido and Maria Melba Wee, who have been named directors III.
The President also appointed Cheryll Eusela, executive director III of Philippine Rubber Research Institute and Ma. Lorina Rigor, director IV of the Department of Human Settlements and Urban
Development.
Some of the appointees were from the labor department: Rene Soriano (acting member and employers sector representative of the Employee’s Compensation Commission Board of Commissioners); Rene Cristobal (employers sector representative), Arthur Juego (labor sector representative), Jose Roland Moya (employers sector representative), Ranulfo Payos, (employers sector representative) and Antonio Sayo (employers sector representative) all of the National Tripartite Industrial Peace Council; Carlos Catis (member and workers sector representative of the Region IX Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board) and Alice Dumadag (member and workers sector representative of Region XII Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board).
Also appointed were Maria Regina Angela Galias and Marlito Rodriguez (directors IV of the Department of Migrant Workers); Jose Briones Jr., (deputy administrator III of the Department of Transportation Office for Transport Security); Jose Carillo, Rodelio Jocson and Danilo Macerin (directors IV of the Office for Transport Security) and Juan Emmanuel Reyes (assistant secretary of the Presidential Management Staff).
Seven officials were appointed to governmentowned or controlled corporations – Arsenio Bartolome III, who has been named acting member of the board of directors of the National Development Co.; Franz Josef George Alvarez, Edgar Benedict Cutiongco, Rafael del Pilar, Arthur SaldivarSali, Romeo Solis Jr. and Adrian Ferdinand Sugay – all of whom have been named to the board of directors of the Philippine National Oil Co. Exploration Corp.