Guest of Honor and Speaker's Profile: Ronald Cardema

Our guest speaker for today hails from the Province of Laguna. He was the Student Council Founding President in his elementary school in Calamba City, he was the High School Class President & High School PMT Corps Commander in his high school in Los Banos, and he took up BS Biology and was the Centennial ROTC Corps Commander of the University of the Philippines in 2008. He also became the Supreme Commander or President of the UP Vanguard Fraternity, UP Diliman Chapter, in 2009. During high school, he won as YMCA National Quiz Bee Champion in Baguio City besting 176 other high school representatives from all over the Philippines.

He served as a Political Affairs Officer in the House of Representatives from 2010 to 2016 and is now the consultant of 17 Members of the Philippine Congress. Last week, he was the guest of honor and speaker in the SILK ROAD International Culture and Arts Summit in Hong Kong attended by around 300 businessmen and diplomats. Recently, he was also given a plaque of recognition by the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for his successful lobbying for the return of the Mandatory ROTC Cadetship Program for the Filipino Youth and in the recruitment of businessmen and Members of Congress in the AFP Reserve Force.

Last year, he founded the Duterte Youth organization composed of ROTC officers, PMT Officers, Boy Scout leaders, & young professionals who are supporting then Mayor Rodrigo Duterte's presidential campaign. They now have more than 10,000 members and hope to raise at least 1 Million Duterte Youth members who will be the catalyst for real change in every barangay and hopes to transform the Philippine Republic into a Southeast Asian Superpower in the next 5 years.

He comes from humble means with his father as a driver, a mother who is an OFW, and his only sibling & younger sister, Bea, who is a graduate of the Philippine Science High School, an international math olympiad winner, and was nominated by the Philippine Senate to the United States Military Academy in West Point. We expect more from this Philippine Youth Leader.

Duterte Youth Chairman Mr. Ronald Cardema