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Naga City mayor now DILG secretary
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Multi-awarded and three-term Mayor of Naga City Jesse M. Robredo was named today the Secretary of the
Department of Interior and Local Government by President Benigno S. Aquino III.
This just about completes the Cabinet of President Aquino, with the exception of the Office of the Press
Secretary, which he intends to reorganize and rename the Presidential Communications Office.
Robredo is the first and only Filipino Mayor to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service in
2000. He was elected mayor of Naga City in 1988 at the age of 29, making him the youngest city mayor at that
time.
Under his leadership, Naga City was adjudged one of the “most improved cities in Asia” by Asiaweek Magazine
in 1999. In 1995, he was elected president of the League of Cities of the Philippines, the national association of
city mayors.
Robredo obtained his undergraduate degree in Industrial Management engineering and Mechanical
Engineering at the De La Salle University. He was an Edward Mason Fellow and a graduate of Masters in Public
Administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
in 1999.
In 1985, Robredo finished his masters in Business Administration at the UP Diliman as a scholar and was
named the Graduate School and Faculty Organization awardee for scholarly excellence.
On returning home to Naga City in 1986, he was appointed Program Director of the Bicol River Basin
Development Program, an agency tasked to undertake integrated area development planning in the region.
Aside from the 2000 Ramon Magsaysay Award for government service, Robredo received up to 20 awards in his
lifetime, among them the followiing: 1998 the Konrad Adenauer Medal of Excellence as Most Outstanding City
Mayor of the Philippines; in 1996 the Outstanding Young Persons of the World Award; in 1990 the Outstanding
Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM) Award and the first ever Dangal ng Bayan Award of the Civil Service
Commission.
In March 2008, he was conferred an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree by the Far Eastern University in
Manila.
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