Patricia Santo Tomas

Patricia Aragon Santo Tomas is the Chairman of the Board of Development Bank of the Philippines since 2006.

She has been a Secretary of Labor and Employment and Chairwoman of the Philippine Civil Service Commission for several years.

Patricia Aragon Santo Tomas graduated from Kamuning Elementary School and Quirino High School, both in Quezon City, Philippines. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Far Eastern University, her Master of Science from the University of the Philippines Los Baños, and her Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University.

Patricia Aragon Santo Tomas first worked in the government as a clerk at the Philippine Senate from 1964 to 1966. She gradually rose from the ranks and was transferred from one agency to another until her appointment as Chief of the Manpower Development and Utilization Division in the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) until 1977.

Santo Tomas held other positions as policymaker until her appointment as Administrator of the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) from May 1982 to September 1987. She was appointed Assistant Secretary at the Department of Education, and was shortly re-appointed at the DOLE.

In March 1988, she was appointed Chairperson of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) until March 1995. The CSC is the central personnel agency of the government of the Philippines.

In 2001, she led an Executive Search Committee tasked to find qualified professionals to man key positions in the Cabinet and attached agencies of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Soon, she was appointed by President Arroyo as Secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).

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