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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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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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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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Dr. Aaron Jed Rabena is Professorial Lecturer at the Asian Center in the University of the Philippines Diliman. His areas of interests include Strategic Studies, Greater East Asian Geopolitics and Multilateral Politics, Political Risk, Maritime Security, and Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy.

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Ms. Fretti Ganchoon is Senior State Counsel of Department of Justice of the Republic of the Philippines

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Commo. Nelson Timbang is Chief of Coast Guard Staff for Intelligence, Philippine Coast Guard.

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Laura Del Rosario is currently the 9th President of Miriam College, former Undersecretary of Economic Affairs at DFA Manila, former Ambassador to India and Vietnam, former APEC senior official and Chair in 2015.

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Ms. Karla Mae G. Pabeliña is an Associate Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN), and Lecturer at the Ateneo de Manila University.

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Jerome Jogno is a program manager at Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Philippines. He manages the foundation’s youth empowerment portfolio, social media accounts, and website. He has ten years of experience building partnerships and orchestrating impactful conferences and events. He holds a master’s degree in Philippine Studies, specializing in Philippine Development Studies from the University of the Philippines Diliman and a bachelor’s degree in Consular and Diplomatic Affairs from De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, where he excelled as a scholar, graduating with honors.

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