Thomas Orbos

Thomas "Tim" Muñoz Orbos is a Filipino businessman, government administrator and politician who was General Manager of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and Undersecretary for Road Transport and Infrastructure of the Department of Transportation under the Duterte administration.^[1] He also served as MMDA's acting chairman following the resignation of Emerson Carlos on August 19, 2016.^[2][3] Orbos previously held the position of MMDA Assistant General Manager for Planning under then President Benigno Aquino III.^[4][5]

Thomas Orbos
Orbos in 2016
Chairman of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority
Officer in Charge
In office August 22, 2016 – May 21, 2017
President	Rodrigo Duterte
Preceded by	Emerson Carlos
Succeeded by	Danilo Lim
General Manager of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority
In office August 22, 2016 – February 19, 2018
President	Rodrigo Duterte
Preceded by	Corazon Jimenez
Succeeded by	Jose Arturo Garcia
Assistant General Manager for Planning of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority
In office June 9, 2014 – August 19, 2016
President	Benigno S. Aquino III
Preceded by	Tina Velasco
Succeeded by	Maria Josefina Faulan
Personal details
Political party	PDP–Laban
Relations	Oscar Orbos (brother)
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Orbos hails from the province of Pangasinan and is the brother of former Executive Secretary and Congressman Oscar Orbos and noted Catholic priest Jerry Orbos.^[2][6] He has also previously worked as Undersecretary for the Office of the President and owned several businesses in the past including the Pangasinan Presidents (later renamed Pangasinan Waves) franchise team in the now-defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association.^[2][7] He is also an alumnus from Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Sloan School of Management.

In 2019, Orbos ran for the congressional seat representing the 1st District of Pangasinan, a post formerly headed by his brother.^[8] He ran under the PDP–Laban^[9] party of President Duterte. He lost to his rival, Arnold "Noli" Celeste, by about 18,000 votes.