President Marcos names new GCG officials

MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos has appointed former interior and local government undersecretary Marius Corpus as chairman of the Governance Commission for Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations (GCG).

The President also named Supreme Court (SC) spokesman Brian Keith Hosaka as commissioner of GCG.

Corpus will succeed former Sandiganbayan justice Alex Quiroz, who was appointed head of GCG in 2022.

The two new officials, both lawyers, were appointed on Aug. 3, according to a Facebook post by the Presidential Communications Office yesterday.

Created under Republic Act 10149 or the GOCC Governance Act of 2011, the GCG is mandated to safeguard the country’s ownership rights and ensure that operations of GOCCs are transparent and responsive to the needs of the public.

Prior to his latest appointment, Hosaka was assistant court administrator and Public Information Office (PIO) chief of the SC.

He was a founding partner of the Paner Hosaka & Ypil Attorneys-at-Law.

According to the SC PIO on Aug. 4, Hosaka served under three chief justices – Lucas Bersamin and Diosdado Peralta, both retired, and Alexander Gesmundo. He was “instrumental” in several initiatives that enhanced the dissemination of information about the Court and its activities.

In 2019, during the time of Bersamin, the PIO launched the new and improved SC website, which opened its electronic library to the public free of charge.

The SC e-library, which houses a database of all SC decisions since 1901, was previously only accessible to selected officials and lawyers in the judiciary.

The GCG has three appointive members of the commission, and two ex-officio members: the secretaries of finance and budget. — Daphne Galvez