Teddy Baguilat of Ifugao
Teddy Baguilat
Teodoro “Teddy” Brawner
Baguilat Jr. is a Filipino politician from Ifugao, the home of the famous Banaue Rice Terraces. Baguilat is the current
Congressman of Ifugao, and a former mayor of Kiangan. He currently lives at
Poblacion, Kiangan. He is known as a leading advocate of biodiversity conservation.
Earlier Life
Teodoro Bagulat Jr. was
born on July 1966 in Manila. His parents were Teodoro Baguilat, Sr. and Felisa
Brawner- Baguilat. He has five siblings.
Baguilat finished his
secondary education at Saint Joseph School in Kiangan, then took up Bachelor of
Arts in Mass Communication major in Journalism at the University of the
Philippines- Diliman in Quezon City.
In 1987, Baguilat worked as
an Executive Assistant at the Office of the Undersecretary of Operation at the
Department of Environmental and Natural Resources (DENR).
He then became a
researcher for a GMA 7 talk show titled “Viewpoint” in 1988.
He also reported for
and edited People’s News Service, part of the media communications group of the
Partido Demokratika Sosyalista ng Pilipino.
He then transformed into an
advocacy reporter for Lingkod Tao- Kalikasan in 1898 and even worked as an Executive Assistant at the Philippine Ecological Network in 1990.
Political Career
In 1992, Teodoro Baguilat
Jr, started his triumphant political career when he won a seat at the Kiangan
municipal council. He then ran for Mayor in 1995 and won. He was a three-term
mayor, from 1995 to 2001 of his home town.
In 2004, he was elected
Governor of Ifugao. As the governor of the province, her served as President of
the Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement (SITMO), a non-government organization
dealing with development programs on natural resources, indigenous people
knowledge, renewable energy, organic agriculture and other programs for the
Ifugao people.
In 2005, he served as a
knowledge manager for the City Development Strategies (CDS), a World Bank
Technical Assistance program. He served as a Local Government Unit specialist
for the USAID’s Lead for Health Project (2006) and the Department of Health
policy unit (2007).
In May 17, 2007, he was re-elected
as Governor of his province. He founded the Pamhod Hi Biah Foundation, a social
welfare and educational foundation in Ifugao. He worked for the Ifugao Heritage
Site and participated in various international conferences for the World
Heritage Site in France and in Japan.
In 2010, Baguilat was
elected Congressman of Ifugao.
In April 14, 2012, Baguilat
was reported to have condemned the forcing of Indigenous Peoples in Nueva Ecija,
Capiz, Panay and Iloilo to leave their ancestral lands that are declared as
military reservations. In the same month, he also expressed that he was
mourning over the death of soldiers attacked by New People’s Army members in
Tinoc, Ifugao.
Recently, he has urged
Malacanang to release an amount of P20M to be used for the rehabilitation of
the rice terraces that were destroyed by Typhoons Pedring and Quiel.
Recognitions
1996- Dangal ng Bayan Award
from the Commission on Civil Service
1996- Most Outstanding
Mayor from the Baguio Midland Courier
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