Profile :: The Honorable Cerge
M. Remonde
Secretary
Tel.# 734-2094/736-1198/734-2105/734-3971 TO 86 LOCAL 173/130
Website: http://www.op.gov.ph/pms/default.asp
Director General Cerge M. Remonde is the 15th head of the
Presidential Management Staff (PMS).
From radio reporter/commentator, Cerge
rose to become a member of the Cabinet -- first, as head
of the Government Mass Media Group (GMMG), with a rank of
Secretary, and now, as DG, PMS.
Cerge served as anchor of the highly-rated
DYLA Interaction, a primetime news and commentary program
that set the benchmark for public affairs programming. He
holds the distinction of being the
first ever to rise from the ranks of provincial reporters
to become the National Chairman of the Kapisanan ng mga
Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP), and the first KBP chair to
be elected to a sixth term. It was from there that he was
plucked to join the government.
In January 2001, three days after President
Arroyo assumed office, he was appointed Press Undersecretary
in charge of broadcast. He was among the first batch of
appointees under the 2004 mandate of the President, when
he was named head of the GMMG, overseeing various government-owned
media entities, including NBN 4, RPN 9 and IBC 13; Bureau
of Broadcast Services or Radyo ng Bayan; Bureau of Communication
Services; and the Philippine News Agency.
Prior to his appointment as DG, PMS in
October 2006, he was the Lead Convenor of the National Anti-Poverty
Commission in concurrent capacity with his post as GMMG
chief.
Cerge traces his roots to Argao, Cebu where
he spent the formative years of his life. He obtained his
Bachelor of Arts degree, Magna Cum Laude, at the University
of the Visayas (UV) in Cebu City. He took up Cooperation
and Development Studies at the Afro-Asia Institute in Tel
Aviv, Israel in 1986. He also attended an International
Visitors Program hosted by the U.S. State Department in
Washing D.C. in 1992.
His leadership in radio, television and
print has earned him many awards and distinctions, among
them as the Most Outstanding Visayanian in the field of
Mass Media in 1998 and, together with former Chief Justice
Hilario Davide Jr., the Most Outstanding Cebuano in 1999.
Aside from his Cabinet post and his being
Senior Adviser to the GRP-NDF Peace Panel, Cerge was Chairman
of the Advertising Board of the Philippines, the Freedom
Fund for Filipino Journalists, and the Appeals Board of
the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board
(MTRCB). He also served as Commissioner of the Communications
Committee for UNESCO.
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