Banias, Raul

Raul N. Banias, M.D., M.P.A.
Chairperson, Task Force Bangon Panay
Presidential Assistant for Western Visayas
Office of the President for Regional Development
National Economic and Development Authority
Fort San Pedro, Iloilo City

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• Former Municipal Mayor of Concepcion, Iloilo
• Graduated Doctor of Medicine, 1982, from the West Visayas State University
• Finished Masters in Public Administration, 2006, from the University of San Agustin
• Chairman of the Board of the B+ Seafood Corporation and BMore Corporation
• Former Chairman and presently the Adviser of the Alliance of Northern Iloilo for Health and Development, Inc. (ANIHEAD)
• Former Chairman and presenty the Adviser of the Northern Iloilo Alliance for Coastal Development, Inc. (NIACDEV)
• Member of the Program Advisory Group of the LEAD for Health Project of MSH and USAID, 2002-2005
• Member and past Trustee – International Visitor Program of the US State Department having participated in the IVP program in 2000
• 2001 Most Outstanding Municipal Mayor of the Philippines in the Local Government Leadership Award Program
• 2005 Rafael M. Salas National Award on Population and Development
• Participant to the Learning Tour on Community Tourism Program of the Local Government Support Program in Bangkok, Thailand on 2000
• Participant to the 2nd Asia Pacific Reproductive Health Conference at Malaysia in November, 2005
• Led the Municipality of Concepcion to achieve 3 Galing Pook Awards: (1.) Vision 2020 – Zero Poverty Program in 2004; (2.) Linking Population, Health and Environment Program in 2005; (3.) Local Initiatives to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2006
• March 2004 – Presenter of KALAHI-CIDSS program in an International Conference in the World Bank Headquarters in Washington DC, USA
• 2005 Packard–Gates Fellow of the International Family Planning and Leadership Program of the International Health Program of the Public Health Institute in California
• 2006 Packard Fellow on Transformative Leadership of the International Health Program of PHI in Santa Cruz, California
• May 21-26, 2007 – Participant and Presenter at the International Labor Organization – Local Economic Development International Conference at Chiang Mai, Thailand
• October 2007 – Presenter in the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) 2nd World Congress in Jeju, South Korea where Zero Poverty Program of Concepcion was recognized one of the World’s Best Practices in Social Inclusion
• 2007 Fellow on Transformative Leaders Follow-On Program of International Health Propram in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• 2006 Presidential Lingkod Bayan Awardee by the Civil Service Commission – the only elected official in the country to receive the year highest recognition that is conferred to public servants.
• September 2007 – was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as the Presidential Assistant for Panay and Guimaras
• February 2008 – was appointed by PGMA as the Presidential Assistant for Western Visayas (including Negros Occidental) with the rank of Assistant Secretary
• Designated the Regional Peace Adviser under the Office of the President
• Lecturer, Presentor and Visayas Regional Coordinator of the Mayor’s Development Center of the League of the Municipalities of the Philippines
• July 25, 2008 – appointed by PGMA through AO 230 as the Executive Director of Task Force Bangon Panay
• December 7-9, 2008 – participated in 2008 Workshop on Building Government Management Capacity for Transparent Local Governance of United Nations Center of Governance at Beijing, China