President Benigno Aquino has appointed Far Eastern University Institute of Law dean Juan Andres Bautista as chairman of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) to replace Camilo Sabio, the Office of the Executive Secretary (OES) confirmed yesterday. Dean Bautista, who earned his degree in Legal Management from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1986 and graduated class valedictorian from the Ateneo Law School in 1990, served as president of the Philippine Association of Law Schools. Bautista finished his Masters of laws from Harvard Law School. He is a concurrent chief executive of Kuok Group Philippines, a multinational company that owns holdings in various industries, including the Shangri-La chain of hotels. He was also a former member of the Consultative Commission on Charter Change, an independent body formed by then President Gloria Arroyo in 2005, purposively to propose revisions to the 1987 constitution.
UPDATE: Dean Bautista silently assumed the post in a simple turnover ceremony sans the media fanfare on September 1.
