Dr.Emmanuel M. Santiaguel
The new CDA Chair is a native of Imus, Cavite, the cradle of Philippine History where most of our heroes were hailed. He is married to Florinda Sayas, public school teacher and is blessed with two (2) children Bernice Ann (physical therapist) and Emmaflor (a registered nurse).
He graduated with a degree of Business Management in 1981, finished his Masters in Business Administration in 1990, specialized in Master in Public Administration in 1991 and finally earned his PhD in Development Administration in 2000 at Philippine Christian University. He has completed in 2004 the Supervisory Development Course (Tracts 1,2,3) of the Civil Service Commission.
While he aims in developing the capabilities of CDA personnel, coop leaders and managers through continuous education, training and advocacy programs, and networking with various agencies, federations, unions and LGUs, he teaches at the Graduate School of Business and Management at the Philippine Christian University and Lyceum University of the Philippines.
The new Chair marked his golden birthday last May 27, 2010 with very defining accomplishments in the government and private service starting as Clerk-Secretary at Imus Institute, to becoming a Property Custodian & Maintenance Supervisor. In 1991, he was a Professor and Department Head at Imus Institute and in 2002 he became the Acting Chief of Staff to the Governor and at the same time Provincial Government Department Head for the Cooperative , Livelihood and Entrepreneurial Development Office of the Province of Cavite. Under his able leadership, the province became the Cooperative Capital of the Philippines and the Provincial Cooperative Office became the model for other LGU’s in the country to duplicate.
He started his active coop involvement as early as 1980 as an officer of Kapit-Baryo Credit Cooperative until lately Consultant of Provincial Capitol Employees Credit Cooperative. Likewise, he serve as General Manager and Chairman of the United Cavite MPC and Chairman of Imus Institute MPC. Also, he has his good exposure with cooperative bank when he serves as Director, Vice-Chairman and Chairman of Cooperative Bank of Cavite starting 1998 up to 2010 and an Oversight Committee Director of Cavite Coopreneur Surety fund on 2008 to 2010.
The CDA Chairman was elected as President of the League of Cooperative Development Officers of the Philippines (LCDOP) wherein he leads and manages with professional dynamism and remarkably serve from 2006 to 2009. An active cooperative organizer, speaker, trainer and facilitator to various cooperative organizations, and also a strong advocate and developer of merger and consolidation of cooperatives for a strong cooperative society in the Philippines.
He has been exposed to Bavaria, Germany for Coop Information visit sponsored by Hann Seidel Foundation thus becoming an automatic member of National Cooperative Movement (NCM) and in PFCCO’s cooperative exposure program in Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia). He has also visited a number of Asian countries such as Cambodia, Vietnam and China for environmental conferences and congress. He has personally toured cooperatives in some parts of USA and Europe.
A co-author of two books in cooperatives “Cooperative Power: Changing Lives”- the cooperative story of Cavite published in 2004 and “Change Leadership, Change Management and, Cooperative Good Governance” – a module for coop leaders published in 2008, both marketed by the Cooperative Union of Cavite.
Ladies and gentlemen, our new CDA Chairman- a prominent coop leader, a remarkable government officer, a manager of coop development programs and a firm believer of building safe, sound and strong cooperatives in the Philippines, please welcome The Honorable Undersecretary EMMANUEL MADLANGBAYAN SANTIAGUEL.
