Guest of Honor and Speaker’s Profile

Jose Manuel Romualdez y del Gallego

I. Personal Information

Name: Jose Manuel del Gallego Romualdez

Date of Birth: 08 November 1947

Place of Birth: Manila

II. Education

Ateneo de Manila University, Grade School, 1954-1962

Ateneo de Manila University, High School, 1962-1965

Forest Hills High School, New York, USA, 1965-1966

Dela Salle College, College, 1966-1970. Diploma: B.S.B.A.

III. Professional Experience

1970-1979: News Reporter/Newscaster (NEWSWATCH RPN-9)

April 1989: Coordinated Media group for the official visit of Vice-President Salvador H. Laurel in Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco

May 1997: Member, Business Delegation of President Ramos to Los Angeles, San Diego & Mexico

November 1997: Member, Business Delegation of President Ramos to APEC Conference in Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco & New York

July 1999: Coordinated official working visit of the former President Joseph Ejercito Estrada to San Francisco, New York and Washington DC

September 2011: Member, Philippines, Inc. delegation with President Noynoy Aquino’s official visit to China and Japan

October 2012: Member, Philippines, Inc. delegation with President Noynoy Aquino’s official visit to New Zealand

Current, 2001: President, Manila Overseas Press Club (MOPC)

Columnist, The Philippine Star (Babe’s Eye View and Spy Bits)

Chief Executive Officer, Stargate Media Corporation

Publisher, People Asia Magazine (Philippine Star affiliate)

Executive Vice-President, Philippines, Inc.

Chairman, FCB Group

IV. Club Affiliations/Memberships

1. Manila Overseas Press Club 2. Olympic Club, San Francisco 3. Makati Business Club 4. Manila Polo Club 5. Manila Golf 6. American Chamber of Commerce 7. Philippines, Incorporated 8. Canadian Chamber of Commerce 9. The Tower Club 10. Rotary Club of Manila 11. The City Club

Over the years, Mr. Romualdez has served as resource person/speaker for various fora and is usually invited by broadcast networks as panelist/discussant on current issues of national interest. In May 2006, Mr. Romualdez was a speaker and delivered a speech titled “Dying to tell the story” at the International Press Institute (IPI) World Congress and 55th General Assembly in Edinburgh, Scotland where he discussed the media killings in the Philippines. He was a reactor/panelist during Guam Chief Justice Robert Torres Jr.’s lecture on “Media and the Courts” organized by the Supreme Court and the Philippine Judicial Academy in 2011. Mr. Romualdez was also a speaker during the very First Professional Summit organized by the Philippine Association of Professional Regulatory Board Members (PAPRB) on the topic “Professional Media in the Digital Age.”

Mr. Romualdez writes three columns for The Philippine Star, namely Spy Bits which appears at the Business Section every Tuesday and Thursday; Babe’s Eye View every Sunday within the Opinion/Editorial pages; and This Week on PeopleAsia at the Allure section of the paper every Sunday. All three columns have a wide following of readers composed of Filipinos and foreigners both in the Philippines and abroad (via the paper’s online version).