Joel Villanueva
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The Honorable Joel Villanueva |
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Villanueva in 2015
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| Senate of the Philippines | |
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Assumed office June 30, 2016 |
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| Member of the Philippine House of Representatives for Citizens' Battle Against Corruption | |
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In office February 6, 2002 – June 30, 2010 |
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| Succeeded by | Sherwin Tugna |
| Director General of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority | |
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In office 2010 – October 13, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Augusto Syjuco, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Irene Isaac |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Emmanuel Joel Villanueva August 2, 1975 Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines |
| Political party | CIBAC (2001–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Bangon (2004-Present) Liberal (2013-2016) |
| Parents |
Eddie Villanueva Adoracion Villanueva |
| Website | joelvillanueva |
| Basketball career | |
| Career information | |
| College | University of Santo Tomas |
| Career history | |
| c. 2014 | Malacañang Patriots |
| c. 2016 | Senate Defenders |
Emmanuel Joel Villanueva (born August 2, 1975) is a Filipino politician and a Senator of the Philippines. He recently won the 2016 Philippine election, ranked second with 18,459,222 votes. He was a former Director General of the TESDA from 2010-2015 and a three-term congressman from 2001-2010. Villanueva became the youngest member of the House of Representatives when he took his oath of office on February 2002.
Joel Villanueva was born in August 2, 1975 in Bocaue, Bulacan. He is the second of four children of Eddie Villanueva and Adoracion "Dory" Villanueva. He attended the University of Santo Tomas where he graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree, with a Major in Economics. He then went to Harvard University in the United States where he took graduate studies in Business Administration from 1996 to 1998.
While in the office of the director general of TESDA, he also completed a 124-hour course in Advanced Food and Beverage Services at the agency to acquire vocational skills as a barista.
Villanueva was part of the UST Growling Tigers varsity basketball team that won the UAAP Season 56 and 57 of 1994-1995. Villanueva was part of the Philippines national basketball team that competed in international basketball competitions in Taiwan and Malaysia in 1995.
He returned to competitive basketball in 2014 playing for the Malacañang Patriots in the UNTV Cup. After winning a Senate seat, Villanueva joined the Senate Defenders basketball team, in preparations for the opening of Season 5 of the UNTV Cup.
Villanueva was elected as a member of the House of Representatives in 2001 as a party-list representative of the Citizens' Battle Against Corruption (CIBAC). His taking the oath of office was delayed for seven months following accusations that CIBAC was an extension of the Jesus is Lord Church, a sect founded by his father, Eddie Villanueva. At age 26, Villanueva took his oath of office in February 2002, becoming the youngest member of the House of Representatives, a distinction previously held by Felix William Fuentebella.
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