Alain
Del Bustamante Pascua is the
Founding President of KAAKBAY Partylist. He has served in government
as an Assistant Secretary in the National Anti-Poverty Commission
(NAPC)
incharged of the Basic Sectors, Congress and Media. Pascua is the
Secretary-General of the Be Not Afraid Movement (BNA) and was the
Founding President of the National Association of Student Councils
of the Philippines (NASCOP) when he was the President of the Adamson
University Student Government. Pascua also studied at the Mary Help
of Christians Seminary and is a member of the Philippine Alliance of
eX-seminarians (PAX). He finished his Bachelor's Degree in Civil
Engineering with a Presidential Medallion Award. He is also graduate
student at the National College of Public Administration and
Governance at the University of the Philippines (UP-NCPAG). Pascua
was born in Gerona, Tarlac, but his mother’s roots can be traced in
Burgos, Pangasinan. He currently resides in Matandang Balara, Quezon
City.
Prof.
Leonor "Liling" Magtolis Briones
is the Lead Convenor of Social Watch Philipines (SWP),
Co-Coordinator of Social Watch Asia, and member of the International
Coordinating Committee of Global Network of Social Watch. Briones is
an Oxfam Ambassador to G-8 (USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany,
Russia, Italy, Japan). She is a professor at the National College of
Public Admnistration and Governance in the University of the
Philippines (UP-NCPAG). She holds a B.A. in Business Administration
from Siliman University, magna cum laude, and a MPA (1967) from
NCPAG, University of the Philippines. She also has a post-graduate
diploma from the University of Leeds (1968) in the UK and a
certificate of Public Policy from the Harvard Institute for
International Development (1984). Briones was a former National
Treasurer, Chairperson of Silliman University and President of the
Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC). Briones hails from Valencia,
Negros Oriental. She is a Member of KAAKBAY National Council
representing the Academe.
Eulogio
"Ogie" Unite Tumbali hails
from Nabunturan, Compostela Valley in Mindanao. Tumbali was a former
Tree Marker, Forest Guard and Scaler at the former Bureau of Forest
Development, which is now the Department of the Environment and
Natural Resources. He finished Forestry at the University of
Mindanao, was former President of the Rotary Club of Compostela
Valley, former officer of the Regional Emergency Action
Telecommunications (REACT) of Agusan del Sur, member of Quota
International, and former General Manager of Cabidiananan Wood
Industry Workers Cooperative in Nabunturan. Tumbali hails from
Ballesteros, Cagayan Valley but he now resides in Mindanao ever
since he migrated when he was in college. Tumbali is KAAKBAY's
Regional Convenor for Southern Mindanao.
Cicero
Dait Lumauig was a former
Attache and Protocol Officer at the Philippine Mission to the United
Nations (UN) in New York, USA, and was a Delegate in several
assemblies of the UN in the Special Political Committee and
Committee on Decolonization. He was a former Special Assistant to
the Philippine Representative at the Manila Economic and Cultural
Office (MECO) incharged of meeting and networking with Overseas
Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Taiwan, and was a former Immigrantion
Agent of the Bureau of Immigration. Mr. Lumauig finished Political
Science at the University of the East. He is a Gaddang native and
hails from Alfoso Lista, Ifugao in the Cordilleras. Lumauig is
KAAKBAY's Regional Convenor for the Cordilleras.
Daniel
Persia Galvan is a
Professional Electrical Engineer who started as an Overseas Filipino
Worker (OFW) in the Middle East. He is a Life Member of the
Institute of Integrated Electrical Engineers of the Philippines
(IIEE)
and President and Chief Executive Officer of Energy Gain Associates,
Inc. Galvan is a Former Vice President for Engineering of Davies
Energy Systems, Inc., and former Speaker of the Adamson University
Student Parliament. He is graduate student at the University of the
Philippines taking up Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Power Option. Galvan hails from Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte,
and is presently residing in Las Pinas. He is a Member of the
National Council of KAAKBAY Partylist representing the Professional
Sector.