PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III has appointed Irene Isaac as the new head of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), replacing Joel Villanueva, who quit his post as TESDA chief to run for senator in next year’s elections.
Malacañang on Friday also released the appointment papers of Leonida Bayani-Ortiz, Danilo Lachica and Paloma Pama, as members representing TESDA’s Employer Sector; Mary Go Ng and Fernando Tanseco, as members representing the Business and Investment Sector; and Bayani Diwa, as member representing the Labor Sector. They will serve for three years.
President Aquino likewise named Evan Garcia as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Prior to his appointment, Garcia held the position of Chief of Mission, Class 1 in the Department of Foreign Affairs.
The President also appointed Flordeliza Maria Reyes-Rayel and Marco David Nepomuceno as members representing the Employers Sector in Region 3 of the Department of Labor and Employment, for a term of five years. PND (jm)