Patricia Santo Tomas
Patricia Aragon Santo Tomas (born April 24, 1946 in Santa Rosa , Oriental Mindoro , Philippines ) is a Filipino politician .
biography
After attending Kamuning Elementary School and Quirino High School , she studied at Far Eastern University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). From 1964 to 1966 she was employed by the Senate (Senado ng Pilipinas). She then completed postgraduate studies at the University of the Philippines (UP) in Los Baños (Laguna) , which she completed with a Master of Science (M.Sc.). She later completed another degree in administration at Harvard University in Massachusetts , where she earned an M.Sc. in public administration.
She then joined the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), where she was head of the Department of Labor Development and Employment in the 1970s . She then took on several administrative tasks within DOLE, before she was lecturer at the UP in Los Baños in 1978 and at the UP Institute for Industrial Relations.
In May 1982 she was appointed head of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration and remained in office until September 1987. She later served as Chair of the Civil Service Commission from March 1988 to March 1995. After a temporary work as a consultant for communication technology in rural education, she was appointed professor of public administration at the University of the Philippines in June 1995 and remained at this chair until May 1996. She later worked as a lecturer at the Ateneo Graduate School of Governance between 1999 and 2000.
On March 16, 2001, she was appointed Secretary of Labor and Employment by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in their cabinet . After five years of activity, she was replaced by Marianito Roque in 2006 as part of a cabinet reshuffle .
She then switched to the private sector and became chairman of the State Development Bank ( Development Bank of the Philippines , DBP), the seventh largest bank in the Philippines and the second largest state bank after the Land Bank of the Philippines .
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| SURNAME | Santo Tomas, Patricia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Santo Tomas, Patricia Aragon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Filipino politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Rosa , Oriental Mindoro , Philippines |