Guest of Honor and Speaker’s Profile
Profile of Jose T. Almonte, National Security Adviser and Director-General of the National Security Council under President Fidel V. Ramos from 1992 to 1998.
JOSE T. ALMONTE was National Security Adviser and Director-General of the National Security Council in the Cabinet of Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos from 1992-98. A graduate of the Philippine Military Academy in 1956, he won the Distinguished Conduct Star for gallantry with the Philippine military contingent in Vietnam from 1966-69. He retired from the Armed Forces in 1986, while recovering the hidden wealth of the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos in Switzerland under Operation Big Bird.
He was also conferred the country’s highest award, the Ancient Order of Sikatuna, for outstanding government service from 1992-98. The Polytechnic University of the Philippines awarded him an honorary doctorate in public administration in 1995.
He published four books: Toward One Southeast Asia (2004), My Part in the 1986 People Power Revolution (2006), We Must Level the Playing Field (2007), and Endless Journey, A Memoir (2015).
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