Marcos appoints new PEZA director

MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos has appointed Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) officer-in-charge Tereso Panga as director-general of the investment promotion agency.

The appointment of Panga and other officials of various agencies was announced by the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) in a Facebook post yesterday.

Prior to this appointment, Panga was designated as OIC of the agency through Memorandum Circular No. 1 dated June 30, 2022 and Memorandum Circular No. 3 issued on July 27, 2022.

He is PEZA’s lead manager for policy and planning, ecozone development, digital transformation, special projects and programs, management information systems, building and environmental code compliance, energy efficiency and other eco-industrial initiatives.

In his 24 years with the PEZA, Panga has served as division chief of policy planning, zone manager of Lima Technology Center and other economic zones in Batangas, zone administrator of the Baguio City and Cavite economic zones and deputy director-general for policy and planning.

Other new appointees in the list released by the PCO were Monina Zenarosa (commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights); Gregorio Pio Catapang Jr. (director-general of the Bureau of Corrections); Willie Ann Angsiy and Dennis Arpia (Department of Agriculture directors IV); Wilberto Castillo and Larry Sultan (DA directors III); Eva Arcos (acting member representing the workers’ group of the Social Security Commission); Ralph Joseph Moncatar (information and communications technology department director IV); June Vincent Manuel Gaudan (Department of Information and Communications Technology director III); Jimi Rambo Arranchado and Melvyn Carlo Barroa (DICT directors II); Rachel Ann Grabador (DICT director I); Evangeline de Leon, Rowena Otida and Eugene Henry Rodriguez (PCO assistant secretaries) and Maria Waywaya Macalma (PCO director III).