Guest of Honor and Speaker’s Profile

Dean Amado D. Valdez has been an advocate of the rule of law and has spoken in different forums in Southeast Asia. He is a professorial lecturer and bar reviewer on Private International Law. In 2001, he delivered a paper on Private International Law at the World Jurist Conference in Dublin Ireland. He sits as member of the Committee on Political Law and Committee on Civil Law to answer Bar examination questions at the U.P. Law Center. He pursued a Master in Business Economics Degree at UAP & took special studies on International Business Law at Singapore National University.

He is the Chairman Emeritus of the Philippine Association of Law Schools and a former Chairman of the Board of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila after holding the position of Dean of UE College of Law for eleven years. He sat in the different boards of private corporations as well as different government corporations. He had been conferred Honorary Doctorate Degrees locally and abroad and received awards as outstanding alumnus of his alma mater from high school to law.

He served the government as Government Corporate Counsel in 2001 with the rank of Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeals and as Senior Undersecretary at the Office of the President, concurrently as Executive Director of the Presidential Commission on the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFACOM). He helped draft landmark legislations during the Cory administration as member of the Cabinet Assistance System. As a young lawyer, he was General Counsel of the U.S. Navy Seventh Fleet based in Subic Bay from 1970 to 1977.

He is often sought to make public commentary on many issues of national importance and hosts a teleradyo program in DZMM/Ch 26 every Saturday at 9:30am to 10:30 am.