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Angelo Azura Jimenez is a Filipino lawyer who is currently serving as the 22nd president of the University of the Philippines.[2][3]
Angelo Jimenez | |
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| 22nd President of the University of the Philippines | |
| Assumed office February 10, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Danilo Concepcion |
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| Children | Aaron Atticus V. Jimenez [1] |
| Education | University of the Philippines Diliman (BA, LLB) Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (MPM) |
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Jimenez earned his sociology and law degrees from the University of the Philippines Diliman.[4][5] He passed the Bar examination in 1994.[4]
He later became a Lee Kuan Yew Fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.[4] He received his master's degree in public management from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.[4][5]
Jimenez is an Of counsel with the Jaromay Laurente and Associates and a consultant of a House member.[4]
Jimenez served on the University of the Philippines (UP) Board of Regents twice: as a student regent (1992) and as a regent (2016–2021).[4][5][6] He was a lecturer at the UP Law Center Institute of the Administration of Justice (2016–2021).[4]
Jimenez is an expert on Philippine overseas labor issues and global migration. He served in the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration as an acting deputy administrator,[5][6] as well as in the Department of Labor and Employment.[4][6] He also served as labor attaché in Japan.[6]
He received two presidential citations for his efforts to protect Overseas Filipino Workers in Middle East.[6]
Jimenez is an opinion writer on ABS-CBN News website.[6]
In December 2022, Jimenez was elected by the UP Board of Regents as the 22nd university president over five other nominees.[7] His term began on February 10, 2023.[8][9]
On May 14, 2024, Jimenez proclaimed University of the Philippines's new logo and “Honor, Excellence, Service” motto.[10]
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