Rodolfo Noel Imperial Lozada Jr., known as Jun Lozada, is an
electronics and communications engineer and former
chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...
of the
Philippine Forest Corporation who served as a technical consultant to former Philippine Socio-Economic Planning Secretary
Romulo Neri
Romulo Neri (born 1 February 1950) is a Filipino educator and public servant. He held several high-ranking government positions such as Secretary of Socio-Economic Planning and concurrently Director-General of the National Economic and Development ...
on the Philippine national broadband project of 2007. He later became the chief
whistleblower
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on
irregularities in the same project in what was to be touted as the
NBN-ZTE Scandal.
A graduate of the
University of Santo Tomas
The University of Santo Tomas (also known as UST and officially as the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, Manila) is a private, Catholic research university in Manila, Philippines. Founded on April 28, 1611, by Spanish friar Miguel ...
, Lozada has a 20-year experience in executive and management positions in the private sector. He assumed the post of president and CEO of PhilForest, a corporate arm of the
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources ( fil, Kagawaran ng Kapaligiran at Likas na Yaman, DENR or KKLY) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for governing and supervising the exploration, developmen ...
, in 2004. In this capacity, he directed the government's program for the propagation and commercial cultivation of the tuba-tuba or
jatropha
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plant, a source of
biodiesel
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.
Lozada hails from
Ligao City
Ligao, officially the City of Ligao ( bcl, Siyudad kan Ligao; fil, Lungsod ng Ligao), is a 4th class component city in the province of Albay, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 118,096 people. Most of the city's e ...
in