Domingo Siazon, Jr.
Domingo Siazon, Jr. | |
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Secretary of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 1995 – January 20, 2001 |
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President | Fidel Ramos Joseph Estrada |
Preceded by | Roberto Romulo |
Succeeded by | Teofisto Guingona, Jr. |
Director-General, UNIDO | |
In office 1985 – December 1992 |
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Succeeded by | Mauricio de Maria y Campos |
Personal details | |
Born | Aparri, Cagayan, Commonwealth of the Philippines |
July 9, 1939
Domingo L. Siazon, Jr. (born July 9, 1939 in Aparri, Cagayan, Philippines) is the former Philippine Ambassador to Japan and former Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
In 1976, Siazon was named Philippine Ambassador to Austria, where he concurrently served as Philippine Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna and to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He was the former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines and Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) from 1985 to 1992.[1]
Siazon obtained his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the Ateneo de Manila University. He earned a second degree in Physics from the Tokyo University of Education where he studied as a Japanese government scholar. He also has a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in Massachusetts and an economics certificate from the Economic Institute of the University of Colorado.
He is fluent in Ilokano, French, Spanish, Japanese, German, and Tagalog.
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- 1939 births
- Ateneo de Manila University alumni
- John F. Kennedy School of Government alumni
- Filipino diplomats
- Foreign relations of the Philippines
- Living people
- People from Cagayan
- Secretaries of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines
- Ambassadors of the Philippines to Austria
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization people
- Ambassadors of the Philippines to Japan