The Philippines PRC Officials

Atty. Charito A. Zamora was Senior Deputy Executive Secretary at the Office of the President prior to her well-deserved appointment to the PRC.

She is among the distinguished alumni of San Beda University, having graduated from the School of Law in Mendiola in 1994. She was conferred a Certificate in American Law at the Berkeley School of Law, University of California, in 2015. A seasoned lawyer, she has rendered public service in all three branches of the National Government.

She was Officer-in-Charge at the Office of Cybercrime, Department of Justice between 2018 and 2022, and has previously been engaged as Technical Assistant with the rank of Assistant Secretary at the Office of the Deputy Executive Secretary for Legal Affairs, Office of the President, under the leadership of former recently-retired Commission on Audit Chairperson Michael Aguinaldo between 2010 and 2016. From 2016-2018, she was among the senior officers of now Solicitor General Meynard I. Guevarra at the Office of the Senior Deputy Executive Secretary, Office of the President. Earlier in her legal career, she was Chief-of-Staff of former Congressman Matias V. Defensor, Jr., and was a long-time Court Attorney at the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

An accomplished songwriter, she has penned some remarkable original Filipino music popularized by Regine Velasquez, Sharon Cuneta, Jaya, Lani Misalucha and Zsa Zsa Padilla, among others. Her favorite works include “To Reach You,” “Beginning Today,” and “Tila.” Suffice it to say that she is a balanced person considering her careers in the legal and music profession.

Dr. Jose Y. Cueto Jr. belonged to Class 1977 of the UP College of Medicine. He finished his Residency Training in General Surgery at the UP-PGH Medical Center, and is a Fellow of the Philippine College of Surgeons and the Philippine Society of General Surgeons. He holds a Master of Health Professions Education degree (MHPEd) from the UP National Teacher Training Center for the Health Professions based in UP Manila. He was a member of the Faculty of the DLSU College of Medicine, Chairman of the Department of Surgery, the Medical Director of the DLSU Medical Center and Vice-President for Medical Services of the DLSU Health Sciences Campus.

He served as Member of the Professional Regulatory Board of Medicine from 2009-2015, and was Chairman of the Board in 2012. As member of the Board, he represented the medical profession in the meetings of the ASEAN Joint Coordinating Committee for Medical Practitioners under the Healthcare Services Sectoral Working Group which discussed the ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangements. He was also the Overall Coordinator for the Philippine Qualifications Framework and the ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework at the PRC. He was the Founding Dean of the Mariano Marcos State University College of Medicine from 2015-2017.

Atty. Erwin M. Enad holds the degrees of Bachelor of Laws from the Ateneo de Davao University, Master in Management from the University of the Philippines - Mindanao and Master in National Security Administration from the National Defense College of the Philippines where he was awarded a Bronze Medal for Academic Excellence.

He is a Senior Fellow in Public Service Program at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, an autonomous postgraduate school of the National University of Singapore (NUS). He previously served as Chief of the Regional Legal Service at the Department of the Interior and Local Government, Special Prosecution Officer at the Office of the Ombudsman-Mindanao and Assistant Secretary at the Office of the President.

He is a member of the Career Executive Service Board.