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The Chairman's page
Media once described him as "among the few responsible public servants who can stand and is willing to die for their conviction towards genuine public service." A testament to that conviction is the fact that the new LWUA Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Atty. Rene Cartera Villa, is one of the ten cabinet secretaries/high ranking officials who resigned their posts in protest in 2005 because of the Garci scandal, a group that came to be known as the "Hyatt 10." He was practically a fresh face in the field, having embraced the life of a public servant just some six years back. But when his concept of right and wrong was put to the test, he placed his conviction up front. Chairman Villa at the time was the Secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform. Before this, then President Joseph Estrada had appointed him Presidential Assistant for Western Visayas in 1999. Shortly thereafter, or in December 2000, he also resigned his post when the Jueteng Scandal erupted. He was reappointed by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to the same post before designating him Regional Development Officer for Western Visayas in 2001 and later, naming him into her Cabinet. The country's public school system practically formed the backbone of his education and professional values: his elementary and college days were in public schools, the latter from the University of the Philippines in the Visayas where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science (1974) and from the University of the Philippines in Diliman where he finished his Bachelor of Laws in 1978. He had a lucrative law practice before heeding the call of public service, he being a partner and founding member of some of the country's top-notch law firms and his own which specializes in corporate law. He was also a lecturer, professor of law, and Bar and CPA Board reviewer in several of Iloilo's universities and, from 1991 to 1993, was Governor of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines and concurrent Vice-President for Western Visayas of the IBP House of Delegates. He also held the posts of Director of Land Bank of the Philippines, PNB Securities, Quedancor, and Passi Sugar Central in Iloilo, among others; Assistant Vice President for Legal and Administration of the Gulf Regional Office Landoil Corporation in Kuwait, and Acting Manager of the Philippine-Singapore Ports Corporation in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is the UP Visayas 2004 Outstanding Professional Jubilarian in the Field of Law, 2004 Iloilo Week Awardee in the Field of Law and Public Service, Centennial Awardee in the Field of Law and Public Service at Central Philippine University - his high school alma mater - and a member of the Board of Advisers of the UP College of Law Centennial Commission along with Vice President Jejomar Binay, Rep. Edcel Lagman, Justice Carolina Aquino, among others. While Chairman Villa is new in the water supply scene, his conviction for genuine public service will, without doubt, cast a significant impact on the way provincial water supply development will take from hereon. After all, safe water supply provision is among the basic needs of the public that he has so embraced. |
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While
Chairman Villa is new in the water supply scene, his conviction
for genuine public service will cast a significant impact
on the way provincial water supply development will take
from hereon. After all, safe water supply provision is among
the basic needs of the public that he has so embraced.
