Nominations to the Board of Trustees (Memo U2425-048)

At its meeting to be held on 16 November 2024, the Members of the Ateneo de Manila University Corporation will elect five (5) members of the Board of Trustees, to replace those Trustees whose current terms will end by then, without prejudice to any number of them being re-elected as such for new terms of three years (from 2024 to 2027) each.

Pursuant to Section 3, Article III of the Corporation’s By-Laws, the Board of Trustees requests from the University community nominations of candidates for consideration and (re-)election to the Board. Nominations, together with brief descriptions of the nominees’ backgrounds and achievements, may be sent to the Corporate Secretary, Office of the President, on or before 31 October 2024, to afford the Board Committee on Membership sufficient time to go through the nominations and for the Board of Trustees to make the necessary recommendations to the Members of the University Corporation. You may send your nomination letters through email to corpsec1@ateneo.edu or president@ateneo.edu.

In making nominations, please consider the preference of the University for the full complement of the Trustees to be such as to present greater diversity on perspectives, and in knowledge and expertise, in the Board. 

Please also take into consideration: (a) the provision in Section 2, Article III of the By-Laws that Trustees must be graduates of recognized educational institutions or universities in the Philippines or abroad, and (b) Presidential Decree No. 176 on the Filipinization of Ownership, Control and Administration of Educational Institutions, which requires that membership in the Board of Trustees of educational institutions in the Philippines be limited to Filipino citizens. Note further that there is no rule against re-election.

The following Trustees will end their current terms of office by November 2024. Their previous consecutive terms are indicated.

The remaining members of the Board and their current terms are: