Angelo Azura Jimenez is a Filipino lawyer who was selected to serve as the 22nd

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of the

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Education

Jimenez earned his sociology and law degrees from the

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. He passed the

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in 1994. He later became a Lee Kuan Yew Fellow of the

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. He received his master's degree in public management from the

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School) is an autonomous postgraduate school of the National University of Singapore (NUS), named after the late former Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew. History The Lee Kuan Yew School of ...

at the

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Career

Law

Jimenez is an Of counsel with the Jaromay Laurente and Associates and a consultant of a

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member.

Academe

Jimenez served on the

(UP) Board of Regents twice: as a student regent (1992) and as a regent (2016–2021). He was a lecturer at the UP Law Center Institute of the Administration of Justice (2016–2021).

Government service

Jimenez is an expert on Philippine overseas labor issues and global migration. He served in the

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as an acting deputy administrator, as well as in the

Department of Labor and Employment The Department of Labor and Employment ( fil, Kagawaran ng Paggawa at Empleyo}, commonly abbreviated as DOLE) is one of the executive departments of the Philippine government mandated to formulate policies, implement programs and services, an ...

. He also served as labor attaché in

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. He received two presidential citations for his efforts to protect

Overseas Filipino Worker Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers, people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. The number of these workers was roughly 1.77 million be ...

s in

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Media

Jimenez is an opinion writer on

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website.

Election as UP president

In December 2022, Jimenez was elected by the UP Board of Regents as the 22nd university president. His term will begin in February 2023.

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