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Captain Lehto is the first US Coast Guard Attache to the US Embassy in the Philippines. He has previously served at Pacific Area, District 14, Sector New Orleans, and Sector Puget Sound

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H.E. David Hartman is Ambassador of Canada to the Philippines

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Mr. Marshall Louis Alferez is Assistant Secretary, Maritime and Ocean Affairs Office, Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines

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I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in International Laws at the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam in 2014 and Master of Laws at the University of Ottawa, Canada

I have been working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for 8 years and I am currently the secretary to Ambassador Lai Thai Binh of Viet Nam

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Deputy Director General Nestor C. Herico is a retired Marines General from the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Shortly after his retirement in 2022, he accepted a new role in the National Security Council as the Deputy Director General for Partnership and Engagement. One of his major designation is being the Vice Chair of the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea.

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Lei Xiaolu, is currently a professor of international law in China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies (CIBOS), Wuhan University. She obtained her LLM degree in 2009 and PhD Degree in 2012 from Wuhan University specialized in international law. In 2017, she was a visiting scholar at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technology University of Singapore. Her research interest covers the area of pacific dispute settlement mechanisms, especially the peaceful settlement of the South China Sea disputes, China’s maritime law and policy, and the legal issues in the law of the sea and general international law.

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Jose Manuel “Babe” del Gallego Romualdez was appointed Ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines to the United States of America in July 2017 by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, and was reappointed in July 2022 by President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, Jr. On 29 November 2017, he presented his credentials to US President Donald J. Trump and formally assumed office as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Additionally, as the head of the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C., Ambassador Romualdez is concurrently the Philippines’ emissary to the Commonwealth of Jamaica, Republic of Haiti; Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Dominica; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; and Saint Lucia.

Prior to his appointment, Ambassador Romualdez was designated as a special envoy of the Philippine President to the United States. He also served as a member of several Philippine business delegations visiting the United States, China, Japan and New Zealand from 1989 to 2012.

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Patrick Zoll is a correspondent for the Swiss daily Neue Zurcher Zeitung (NZZ). Based in Taipei, he covers geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific, particularly the rivalry between the United States and China. Patrick has worked for the NZZ in Tokyo, Sydney and Zurich for more than a decade. He studied international relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in Russia. He has worked in the media, corporate communications and the United Nations.

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Education: Graduated from Ritsumeikan University, March 2014(B.A.)
Graduated from Ritsumeikan University, March 2016(M.A.)
Employment history: Since 2024, Japan Coast Guard

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