2 As Commissioner, I served as the Philippines’ Lead Negotiator in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In many of the negotiations rounds of the UNFCCC, I served as Head of Delegation for the Philippines. In 2013, I was elected as the Co-Chair of the UNFCCC’s Long-Term Finance (LTF) Work Programme, which tackled the starkly important issue of climate finance as a crucial means of implementation for global climate action and climate adaptation. Before being appointed as Commissioner, I have been a working with local communities and international bodies since 1996, focused on domestic and international issues that relate to climate change, clean energy, biodiversity, coastal and marine resources, tourism, disaster risk reduction and local governance. I was also part of a team that actively worked on the development of programs on adaptation of marine ecosystems and coastal communities to climate change and the development of clean and renewable energy for the country. I likewise served as the National Director of the Earth Hour campaign in the Philippines from 2008-2010. After five (5) years in public service, I went back to working within civil society. I am currently employed as the Executive Director of Greenpeace - Southeast Asia. Greenpeace is an independent environmental campaigning organization which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to force the solutions, which are essential to a green and peaceful future. In this role, I lead the diverse operations of Greenpeace across Southeast Asia. I also served as Spiritual Ambassador for OurVoices, a call to people of faith and moral belief, across the world, to engage on the issue of climate change. OurVoices is an international, multi-faith campaign for strong climate action and climate justice. As part of this work, I was appointed Pilgrim Leader of The People’s Pilgrimage, a special journey that highlights communities confronting climate impacts but manifesting resilience and spiritual strength. From the Philippines, this journey brought me to Vanuatu, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Korea, India, and culminated in a 1,500 kilometer walk from Rome to Paris from September to December 2015. I also took the role of the Pilgrim Leader of The Climate Pilgrimage, a journey on foot from Rome to Katowice from October to December 2018. All of these combined to my experience of bearing witness to climate change impacts in the Arctic region, Latin America, North America, Africa, the Pacific Islands, Europe, Australia, and Southeast Asia. I currently serve as a Board Member of the Global Catholic Climate Movement. I am also a member of the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice. I serve as the Environmental Adviser for the Archdiocese of Manila’s Ministry on Ecology. I am also a wildlife photographer, and an avid scuba diver since 1997 with over 2,000 individual logged dives and over 1,000 snorkeling swims majority of which were in The Philippines, but also in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Australia. I have travelled to all regions of the Philippines in the course of the past 25 years.