Victor's Younger Years
His life twenty years ago - 1988
Victor Ordonez is Undersecretary of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports. From his youth, education was his way of life. By the time he was 23, he had completed a Ph. D. in Oriental Philosophy. By the time he was 25, he had accumulated a total of seven academic degrees, four summa cum laudes, one magna cum laude, and two cum laudes. By the time he was 30, he had added three post-doctoral scholarships, at the University of Wisconsin , at the Asian Institute of Management, and at the Harvard Business School .
Victor Ordonez is also Chairman of the Board of Higher Education. Again, from his first jobs, higher education management was his way of life. Before he was 30, he had already served as institutional planning officer, as dean of college in Bacolod , as Ford Foundation consultant for educational administration, as chairman of the UP-PNC consortium on educational management, and as Graduate School Dean of De La Salle University. Subsequently, he founded the Educational Management Center , through which he developed management and planning systems and personnel for dozens of Philippine colleges and universities, and the Center for Educational Management Consultancy in Asia . Through this group, and through the Association of Universities and Colleges in Asia of which he was first Executive Director, he similarly assisted ministries and universities in Korea , Hongkong , Japan , Indonesia and other Asian countries. For his pioneering work in professionalizing the management of higher education institutions in the Philippines and in Asia , he was awarded the TOYM award in 1977. He has since also been Acting President of Maryknoll College, senior fellow at the East West Center in Honolulu, professional lecturer at UCLA, and Chairman or Board member of over twenty public and private colleges and universities.
Victor Ordonez is concurrently Executive Director of EDPITAF, the Educational Development Projects Implementation Task Force, which formulates, negotiates and monitors all education projects assisted by bilateral grants or multilateral bank loans. Prior to joining DECS, he has been DAP's principal resource person for the administrators development program of PROFED, EDPITAF's major project. He was once a banker himself, Vice president of Bancom for corporate planning and HRD, and Managing Director of the Bancom Institute of Development Technology. International negotiations, together with the supervision of of commercial attaches in 72 cities overseas, were part of his duties as Acting Deputy Minister of Trade, responsible for international trade relations and export promotions. He was the Philippine member of the UNCTAD-UNIDO panel of experts on Trade and Industrial Collaboration in Vienna and of the steering committee on cooperative training of managers for development projects, EXXON Education Foundation, New York.
Victor Ordonez is also the Executive Director of the Presidential Commission on Culture and the Arts. He had helped to conceptualize the PCCA during his term as Deputy Minister of the Presidential Commission on Government Reorganization right after the February revolution. His background in culture in mostly in the performing arts having been a company member, actor, or director of Repertory Philippines, Manila Theater Guild, PETA, Dulaang UP, and Summer Rep Theater in California. He has likewise directed both for television and films, and has coproduced a number of international movies shot in Holywood, Bangkong, and Manila. He sits on the Boards on the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Tanghalang Pilipino, Philippine Highschool for the Arts, and Batibot. At present, he is the supervising Undersecretary for the National Museum, the National Library, the Institute of National Language, the National Archives, and the National Historical Institute.
Curriculum Vitae in 1988
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