Rosario Manalo

Rosario Gonzales-Manalo, popularly known as Ambassador Manalo, is a career diplomat, political scientist, and educator in the Philippines. She is presently the Chairwoman of the UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines.

Education

Manalo earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines and a Master of Arts in International Studies and Diplomacy from Long Island University in New York. She was the first woman to pass the Philippine Foreign Service Officers’ Examinations (FSO) in 1959.

Diplomatic career

Manalo was based in Manila for eighteen years before getting her first foreign assignment.

Manalo was the Philippine Permanent Delegate to the UNESCO from 1990 to 1994, and the European Economic Community from 1979 to 1987. She was Chairwoman of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women from 1983 to 1988. In 1976, she was named Deputy Secretary General of the ASEAN National Secretariat, and a Senior Official of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in 1996.

She was Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs in charge of International Economic Relations from 1997 to 2001. She served as Philippine Ambassador to Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; France and Portugal; Kingdom of Belgium and Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Manalo is the Philippine representative and one of only twelve elected experts to the New York-based United Nations Committee monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women or CEDAW from 1992 to 2002.

Academic work

Ambassador Manalo is currently the Chair of the European Studies Program in the Ateneo de Manila University. Manalo is also a professorial lecturer in the School of Multidisciplinary Studies at De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB), a district school of De La Salle Philippines. She also chairs the UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines, the educational and cultural advocacy group of the United Nations.

ocio-civic work

Manalo held leadership positions in various national and international civic and professional groups, such as--the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women from 1975 to 1986, "Federacion Internacional de Abogadas", the Women’s Lawyers’ Circle of the Philippines, and ZONTA Philippines.

External links

* [http://www.admu.edu.ph Ateneo de Manila University]
* [http://www.dls-csb.edu.ph De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde]
* [http://www.unesco.org.ph UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines]
* [http://www.dfa.gov.ph Department of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Philippines]

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