Special Assistant for Middle Eastern and African Affairs to the
Undersecretary for Policy
Acting Assistant Secretary for Asian and African Affairs
Executive Director for Asian and Pacific Affairs
First Secretary (Political and Media Officer) and Consul, then
Minister and Consul General, Philippine Embassy to Paris, France
with concurrent accreditation to Lisbon, Portugal and Monte Carlo,
Monaco
Diplomatic Adviser to Senator Blas F. Ople, Chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee; Commission on Appointments’
Committee on Foreign Affairs (Ople became Foreign Secretary in
2003)
Director for Western European Affairs
Second Secretary and Consul (Political Section), Philippine
Embassy to Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany
Third Secretary and Vice Consul (and No. 2) Philippine Embassy to
Berlin, German Democratic Republic
Acting Executive Director, Office of Public Affairs
The first Official Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Officer-in-Charge (Acting Assistant Secretary) Office of Public Affairs
Assistant Director, then Acting Director for Media Affairs, Office of
Public Affairs
Designated Head of Delegation to the Pacific Islands Forum
Dialogue Partners’ Meeting (Auckland 2004) East Timor Donor
Countries’ Meeting (Lisbon 2001), and Member of the Delegation to
international meetings at the UN, in the ASEAN, ASEAN-Europe,
Asian-Europe Business Forum, Preventive Diplomacy, The Law of
the Sea, etc.
City Editor and Copy Editor “Ang Pahayagang Malaya” the main
opposition newspaper in the Marcos regime
Senior Staff Reporter, then Desk Editor: The Times Journal,”
“Business Journal,” “The Sports Journal,” and Contributing Editor to
the “Travel Times,” “ Tourism Times,” “Advertising Times,” “The
Romblon Reporter,” and “The We Forum.”
President, the Times Journal Employees Union, Member, Trade
Union Congress of the Philippines, Founding Member, the
Brotherhood of Unions in Media of the Philippines (KAMMPI), Labor
Representative, Committee on Working Conditions at the Ministry of
Labor and Employment
President, By-Line Media, Inc, and Director for Business
Development, Communications Linkages, Inc.
Media Affairs Adviser to Labor Minister Blas F. Ople
Publisher-Editor, “Inut-Inot,” a provincial newspaper
Bachelor of Science in Pre-Medicine, University of the Philippines,
1973
Certificate in International Security, Christians Albrechts University
in Keil Germany, 1992
Seminar in Conflict Resolution and Preventive Diplomacy,
International Center for Strategic Studies, Paris, France, 2001
Career Ministers’ Course, Foreign Service Institute, Pasay City, the
Philippines, 1999
Married to Maria Caridad M. Cangco, One daughter, two sons, one
grand-daughter

Meet the Ambassador to the State of Israel His Excellency, Ambassador Antonio C. Modena
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January – May 2004
August – October 2003
February 2002-August 2003
and October-December 2003
October 1995 – February
2002
June 1992 – October 1995
March 1991 – June 1992
May 1989 – March 1991
April 1987 – May 1989
May 1986 – April 1987
April 1985 – May 1986
October 1984 – April 1985
October 1984 – April 1987
Service Outside of the
Department of Foreign Affairs
1981 – 1984
1972 – 1982
1980 – 1983
1975 – 1981
1981 – 1983
1972 – 1975
EDUCATION
CIVIL STATUS
Appointed by H.E. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the Philippines to the State of Israel in 2004.