Rodolfo Certeza Severino Jr. (27 April 1936 – 19 April 2019) was a Filipino diplomat who served as the tenth

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between 1998 and 2002.

Career

He was the inaugural head of the ASEAN Studies Centre (ASC) at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore from 2008 to 2015, and was an adjunct professor at the

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until 2015. He was an Associate Senior Fellow affiliated with the ASC at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. He is the author of four books: ''Southeast Asia in Search of an ASEAN Community'' (2006), ''ASEAN'' (2008), ''The ASEAN Regional Forum'' (2009) and ''Where in the World is the Philippines?'' (2010). He is also the co-editor of ''Whither the Philippines in the 21st Century?'' (2007), among other collections. He studied at Ateneo de Manila University and held a post-graduate degree in international studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He previously held the following positions *Third, Second, and First Secretary, Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C. (1967–1974) *Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs,

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(1974–1976) *Minister-Counsellor and Chargé d'Affaires, Philippine Embassy in Beijing (1976–1979) *Consul General, Philippine Consulate General in Houston, Texas (1979–1986) *Assistant Secretary for Asian and Pacific Affairs and ASEAN Senior Official of the Philippines(1986–1988) *Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Malaysia (1989–1992) *Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs and ASEAN Senior Official of the Philippines (1992–1997) *Professor, Asian Institute of Management, Manila, the Philippines (2003–2004) *Visiting Research Fellow, ISEAS, Singapore, Singapore (2005–2008) Severino died of complications from Parkinson's disease on 19 April 2019, eight days before his 83rd birthday.

Awards

*1997 – Order of Sikatuna, rank of Datu, from President

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of the Philippines *2001 – Order of Sikatuna, rank of Rajah, from President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines, one of only two non-heads of state to receive the award in that rank *2002 – Commander of the

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, from King

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of Cambodia *2017 –

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, rank of Supremo, from President

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of the Philippines (posthumous)

References

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