Loading ...Jesse M. Robredo is the current Mayor of the City of Naga of Bicol. He is the first Filipino Mayor to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service in 2000.
Jesse Manalastas Robredo is a second-generation Chinese Filipino, born in Naga City on 27 May 1958, he is the third of five children, two sons and three daughters, of Jose Chan Robredo, Sr. and Marcelina Manalastas.
His paternal grandfather was a full-blooded Chinese named Lim Pay Co who arrived in the Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century. Chinese immigrants who became Christians, it was the custom to adopt the name of their godparents at baptism and Lim Pay Co chose the name of the priest who baptized him; thus, Juan Lim Robredo. Jesse’s father acquired the middle name Chan from his mother; it was her maiden surname.
Other Information
- Name : Jesse M. Robredo
- Birthday : May 27, 1958
- Birthplace : Naga City
- Political party : Partido Liberal
- Schools Attended :
- Elementary education, Naga Parochial School
- High school education, Ateneo de Naga (1970)
- Industrial Management Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, De La Salle University
- Masters in Business Administration, University of the Philippines, Diliman (1985)
- Masters in Public Administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1999)
- Father : Jose Chan Robredo, Sr.
- Mother : Marcelina Manalastas
- Spouse : Maria Leonor Gerona
Awards and Recognitions
- 2000 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service
- 1998 Konrad Adenauer Medal of Excellence as Most Outstanding City Mayor of the Philippines
- 1996 Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP) Award
- 1990 The Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM)
- “Dangal ng Bayan ” Award of the Civil Service Commission
- March 2008, honorary Doctor of Humanities degree, Far Eastern University in Manila
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