<P><FONT color=#33711E><STRONG>Victor Ordonez</STRONG></FONT></P>
Former Director of UNESCO Bangkok
Victor Ordonez is a Consultant in the field of Education and is a Senior Education Fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii, USA, where he has been involved in formulating a new programme in Educational Leadership - based on collaborative sessions on new education paradigms for rapidly changing, interdependent societies. Formerly with UNESCO, Dr. Ordonez was Director of the Basic Education division in Paris, and then Director of its Principal Regional Office for the Asia-Pacific in Bangkok. Prior to this, he was in the academe (including positions such as Visiting Professor at UCLA; and Dean of the Graduate Schools of Education and Business at De La Salle University in Manila) and in the Philippine Government (Undersecretary of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports; Chair of the Presidential Commission on Education Reform). Dr. Ordonez has seven academic degrees, including a PhD in Oriental Philosophy from the University of Santo Tomas.