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Thomas "Tim" Muñoz Orbos is a Filipino businessman, government administrator and politician who was General Manager of the
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA; fil, Pangasiwaan sa Pagpapaunlad ng Kalakhang Maynila) is a government agency of the Philippines responsible for constituting the regional government of Metro Manila, comprising the capital ...
(MMDA) and Undersecretary for Road Transport and Infrastructure of the Department of Transportation under the Duterte administration. He also served as MMDA's acting chairman following the resignation of Emerson Carlos on August 19, 2016. Orbos previously held the position of MMDA Assistant General Manager for Planning under then President
Benigno Aquino III Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III (; February 8, 1960 – June 24, 2021), also known as Noynoy Aquino and colloquially as PNoy, was a Filipino politician who served as the 15th president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016. The son of ...
. Orbos hails from the province of Pangasinan and is the brother of former Executive Secretary and Congressman
Oscar Orbos Oscar Muñoz Orbos (born January 28, 1951), popularly known as Ka Oca, is a Philippine TV personality and host of GMA Network's ''Debate with Mare at Pare''. Orbos was a former cabinet secretary, provincial governor, and vice presidential candi ...
and noted Catholic priest Jerry Orbos. He has also previously worked as Undersecretary for the Office of the President and owned several businesses in the past including the Pangasinan Presidents (later renamed Pangasinan Waves) franchise team in the now-defunct
Metropolitan Basketball Association The Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA), or Metroball, was a professional basketball league in the Philippines that ran from March 7, 1998, to July 26, 2002. History The MBA played its first game on March 7, 1998, at the Don Narciso Ramos ...
. He is also an alumnus from Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Sloan School of Management. In 2019, Orbos ran for the congressional seat representing the 1st District of Pangasinan, a post formerly headed by his brother. He ran under the
PDP–Laban Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (), abbreviated as PDP–Laban, is a democratic socialist political party in the Philippines founded in 1982. It was part of the country's ruling party alliance from 1986 to 1992 under the administrat ...
party of President Duterte. He lost to his rival, Arnold "Noli" Celeste, by about 18,000 votes.


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