Governor Jose Ma. Clemente S. Salceda or Joey Salceda of Albay has been voted unopposed to his 3rd term as Governor of Albay, and virtually unopposed in all his political elections. He was also voted unopposed to his 3rd term as Chairman of Regional Development Council (RDC) of Region V. Under his leadership, Albay has just been judged by the DILG as the Best Province in Local Governance, ranking No. 1 among the 80 provinces. Its disaster management body, the Albay Public Safety and Emergency Management Office (APSEMO) is a pioneer in Asia, leading the Province of Albay to its Galing Pook Award for Outstanding Governance Program on Disaster Preparedness; and the Gawad Kalasag Hall of Fame Award for Best Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council for three consecutive years. At the present, Governor Salceda is the Co-Chairperson (for Developing Countries) of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the finance arm of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC). He the first Asian to chair the GCF, which was established by the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in December 2011, intended to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of climate change. Governor Salceda was acknowledged as the First Senior Global Champion on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN-ISDR). He is also a recipient of Presidential Lingkod Bayan Award for Outstanding Public Official by the Civil Service Commission; the Bayaning Likas Award / BaKas Parangal ng Kabayanihan given by the NDRRMC; recipient of 2013 Filipino of the Year Award from Publishers Association of the Philippines (PAPI); and Management Excellence Award from Biznews Asia Magazine in 2013. Recently, Gov. Salceda has received the Wind Vane Award from the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomic Services Administration (PAGASA) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) for his contribution to the weather bureau’s disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation program and activities. Governor Salceda also pioneered the establishment of the Climate Change Academy, the first in the country, and on the lighter note, the Pageant Academy, putting Albay as the next Venezuela, having produced at least 54 beauty queens. On the field of education having both parents as teachers, Governor Salceda was pushing for quality education and at least “one graduate in every family”. The Province of Albay placed 177th in the National Achievement Test (NAT) at the start of his term as Governor in 2007. Currently, Albay has moved up to 19th place. He has over 34,000 scholars and expected to have 188,000 graduates by 2016. Governor Salceda is recognized as the “Green Economist Governor” and the father of the “Albay and Manila Declarations on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)”; the declarations that paved the way for the enactment of the Republic Act 9723 (The Climate Change Act of 2009) and Republic Act 10121 (The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act). These laws established disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation as both a national and local priority for building community resilience to climate change impacts and disasters. Governor Salceda has worked with Swissbank and was named the best (and the best paid analyst as well) in the 90’s. He was a Congressman for 3 consecutive terms, holding key positions in Congress such as Chairman of the Committees on Appropriation, Economic Affairs, Oversight and Trade & Industry. He also served as an economic adviser to the Philippine presidents. A native of Polangui, Albay, he was born in 1961. He is a graduate of Bachelor of Science major in Management Engineering, Cum Laude at the Ateneo De Manila University. He earned his Masters Degree in Business Management with Distinction from Asian Institute of Management and was conferred Doctor of Humanities, Honoris Causa by the Bicol University.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:18:32 +0000
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