Emilia Boncodin

Emilia Boncodin

Emilia Boncodin (born 1955 in Iriga City , Philippines , † March 15, 2010 in Quezon City ) was a Filipino politician .

biography

Emilia Boncodin completed her school education as a Primus Omnium at the Iriga Central Pilot School and at St. Anthony College in Iriga City and then studied business administration and accounting . She completed this course in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Business Administration and Accountancy and, as the fifteenth best student in the Philippines, passed her exam in the same year before the examination board of the certified public accountants board examinations.

She spent the majority of her subsequent professional career in what is now the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), the then Office of Budget and Management. First she became Senior Fiscal Planning Specialist in 1978 and then in 1982, at the age of 27, head of department. She later became the director of the budget and management bureau and finally the executive officer of the Government Corporations Budget Bureau in the Budget Ministry created in 1987.

She was later appointed a lecturer at the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG) of the University of the Philippines and the Lyceum of the Philippines University. In addition, she completed postgraduate studies in public administration at Harvard University as an Edward S. Mason Fellow , completing this with a Master of Science in Public Administration (M.Sc.Publ.Adm.).

In 1989 she first became Assistant Secretary of the Budget (Assistant Secretary) and then in 1991 Deputy Minister of Budget (Undersecretary of DBM).

In 2001, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo finally appointed her Secretary of the Department of Budget and Management to her cabinet .

As such, she resigned in 2005 because of allegations of election fraud and election fraud against the President due to the so-called "Hello Garci Affair", as did nine other ministers. The scandal related to a taped telephone conversation between a woman, presumably the president, and a man, presumably the head of the State Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano, presumably about a plan to manipulate the results of the 2004 presidential election.

In 2009 she became a member of the board of directors of Petron Corporation , the Philippines' largest petroleum company .

Emilia Boncodin died of a heart attack at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute in Quezon City after a failed kidney transplant . She had long since had kidney problems again after undergoing a kidney transplant in 2005.

Web links

• MANILA STANDARD TODAY: "Former Budget chief Emilia Boncodin, 55" (March 16, 2010)