Professional Experience

• Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)

  2017–2021 Secretary

• Land Bank of the Philippines

  2017–2019 Ex-Officio Director

• Department of Interior and Local Government

  2016–2017 Undersecretary for Operations

• Office of Senator Aquilino Pimentel

  2015–2016 Legal Consultant

• Department of Transportation’s Investigation, Security and Law Enforcement Service (ISLES)

  2009 Director

Significant Works/Projects

• Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)

  2018–2021 Secretary

  Enacted Enhanced Support Services through the Convergence on Livelihood Assistance for Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Project (CLAAP) and the ARBOLD Program for the Assistance of the Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries during the COVID 19 Pandemic.

• Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)

  2021 Secretary

  Proposed and secured the approval from the Office of the President for the enactment of Executive Order No. 75, Series of 2019
  for the redistribution of idle government owned lands to qualified beneficiaries without need for amortization payments, with a universal set of Two Hundred Eighty Thousand (230,000) hectares.

• Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)

  2021 Secretary

  Spearheaded the Housing Program for Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs), which was launched in Umingan, Pangasinan and in Solano, Nueva Vizcaya.

• Economic Recovery

  • Provide aid and incentives to SME
  • Examine and renew business activities in preparation for COVID-19 variants
  • Strengthen the country’s agricultural industry for economic recovery

• Agriculture

  • Focus on agriculture for the country’s recovery from the pandemic
  • Craft laws to allow farmers who are tenants of agricultural lands to acquire properties
  • Distribute lands to those who want to work in agriculture
  • Strengthen agricultural industry in the country for food self-sufficiency

• Political and Legislative Agenda

  • Push for federalism to bring focus and provide opportunities to people living in the provinces, especially in remote areas
  • Bring integrity back to the judicial process through trial by jury where different people can take part in court decisions and the judicial system
  • Create a department of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) to give focus to their interests, rights, and well-being; ensure that it is headed by OFWs as well
  • Pursue international diplomacy based on genuine nationalism
  • Create Magna Carta for Barangays to provide more benefits for barangay officials and workers
  • Push for the country’s industrialization and advancement of technologies for various sectors and industries

Agriculture

Infrastructure

Environment

Family and Women's Rights

Labor/Worker's Rights

Global Politics

Previous Administration

• The New York Times | Aug. 15, 1982

  PHILIPPINE MILITARY ACADEMY IS UNDER ATTACK

  In the most serious case, Cadet John Rualo Castriciones was sentenced on July 12 by a seven-man military court to five years of hard labor for his part in the hazing death of a fourth-class cadet, Andres Ramos, last November.