PRESS SECRETARY CERGE REMONDE

PERSONAL
• Born in Argao, Cebu
• Remonde is married to newspaper columnist Marit Stinus.

EDUCATION
• Magna cum laude from the University of the Visayas (UV) with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
• In 1986, he studied Cooperation and Development Studies at the Afro-Asia Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel.
• In 1992, he took part in the United States State Department International Visitors Program in Washington, D.C.

AFFILIATIONS
• Senior Adviser to the GRP-NDF Peace Panel
• Chairman of the Advertising Board of the Philippines
• Chairman of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists
• Chairman of the Appeals Board of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB)
• Commissioner of the Communications Committee for UNESCO.

AWARDS
• Most Outstanding Visayan in the field of Mass Media in 1998
• Most Outstanding Cebuano with former Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr.(1999)

CAREER
• Early jobs in media included being a stringer at the Philippine News Agency (PNA)
• He was an anchor for DYLA Interaction, a primetime news and commentary program.
• National Chairman of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) the first KBP chair to be elected to a 6th term
• In 2001, Remonde became press undersecretary in charge of broadcast and the executive director of the Radio Television Malacañang Presidential Broadcast Staff
• president of NBN 4, RPN 9 and IBC 13.
• Secretary of the Government Mass Media Group (GMMG) in 2004.
• In October 2006, he became the lead convener of the National Anti-Poverty Commission
• Director-General of the Presidential Management Staff
• February 1, 2009, appointed as Press Secretary.