Gina Lopez
| Gina López | |
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Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources Ad interim |
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Assumed office June 30, 2016 |
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| President | Rodrigo Duterte |
| Preceded by | Ramon Paje |
| Chairperson of Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission | |
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Assumed office August 23, 2010 |
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| President |
Benigno S. Aquino III Rodrigo Duterte |
| Preceded by | Horacio C. Ramos |
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Regina Paz La'O Lopez December 27, 1953 |
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Eugenio M. López Jr. Conchita La'O |
| Alma mater |
Assumption College (Boston) Newton College of the Sacred Heart (Boston) Asian Institute of Management |
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Regina Paz "Gina" La'O López (born December 27, 1953) is a Filipino environmentalist and philanthropist who is the current Secretary of the Philippines' Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). She is a former yoga missionary and a pioneer for corporate social responsibility. She was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte.
Lopez is serving her post in an ad interim basis until the Commission on Appointments is set to confirm or reject her appointment as environment secretary in March 14, 2017.
López is the daughter of ABS-CBN Chairman Emeritus Eugenio López, Jr. of Iloilo and Conchita La'O of Manila. She has six siblings including ABS-CBN Chairman Eugenio López III. Lopez went to Assumption College and Newton College of the Sacred Heart in Boston. She has a master's degree in Development Management from the Asian Institute of Management. She has two sons.
After studying in the United States, Lopez left her elite life in Manila and became a yoga missionary for 20 dedicated years and went to Portugal, India, and Africa. She met her now ex-husband in Africa with whom she had two sons. She became an Ananda Marga yoga missionary who taught yoga, and ran pre-primary schools and children's homes for the underprivileged. She lived among the people of slum areas in Africa guided by the slogan ‘Service to humanity is service to God’.
When she returned to the Philippines, she initiated corporate social responsibility programs for the environment and Filipino communities. She became the Managing Director of the ABS-CBN Foundation.
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