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Senior Undersecretary Manuel M. Bonoan
Profile
Appointed DPWH Officer-In-Charge by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
from January
30, 2007 to July
3, 2007, DPWH Senior
Undersecretary Manuel M. Bonoan, has
spent more than half of his life in the Department as a Civil
Engineer having started his career as civil engineering aide in 1967
during his senior year in Civil Engineering at the Mapua
Institute of Technology. A year after, he passed the licensure
exams and was promoted as Junior Civil Engineer, a job he
held for only seven months, after which, he was again promoted as
Civil Engineer of the then Bureau of Public Highways.
From
then on, he rose from the ranks until his appointment as DPWH
Assistant Secretary for Planning in August
1987, Undersecretary
in July
1, 1998, and Senior Undersecretary from July 4, 2007 to
present.
To
beef up his civil engineering knowledge, Senior Undersecretary Bonoan has
finished his graduate diploma in Highway Engineering at the
University of South Wales in Sydney, Australia in 1976. He
also attended various trainings, seminars and international
conventions among which are:
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Member of the Philippine Delegation to the
Signing Ceremony of the Intergovernmental Agreement on the
Asian Highway Network in Shanghai, China; |
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Transportation Estimators Association
Conference and the Transport User Group Meeting (Burlington,
Vermont and USA); |
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Member of the Philippine Delegation to the 3rd
World Water Forum (Kyoto, Shiga, Osaka, Japan);
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Member of the Philippine Economic Delegation
to the Consultations with the Japanese counterparts in the
Diets of Japan for the implementation of ODA projects being
implemented by the DPWH (Tokyo, Japan); |
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86th Annual Meeting of Japan
Society of Engineer, Edmont Hotel, Tokyo, Japan; |
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Paper presentation on the construction of the
2nd Mandaue-Mactan Bridge to the 10th
Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia (REAAA)
Conference, Tokyo, Japan; |
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Group Training Course on “Executive Seminar
on Public Works and Management” under Bilateral Association
Programme of the Government of Japan, Tokyo, Japan; |
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Urban and Industrial Environmental Management
in Asia (Singapore); |
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World Bank Management and Financing of Roads
in Washington, USA; |
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Tour Study on Taiwan's Networking and
Industrialization in Taipei, Taiwan; |
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World Bank-sponsored Policy Study on New
Funding Mechanism for National Road Maintenance and the
Establishment of a Philippine Road Board in Wellington, New
Zealand, and Melbourne, Australia; |
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Joint ESCAP-ADB seminar-cum-workshop on Roads
Safety in Asia and the Pacific at the United Nations
Conference Centre in Bangkok, Thailand;and |
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Asia Regional Conference on Urban and Peri-Urban
Strategic Sanitation in Jakarta, Indonesia. |
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He has written and published the following
technical papers : |
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Public Works Research and Development in the
Philippines; |
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Development of an Arterial Road System in the
Philippines, Road Safety in the Philippines; |
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Damage of Highway and Effects on
Passenger/Goods Flow in Disaster Emergency; and; |
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Contemporary Problems and Policy - Making
Trends on Transportation Infrastructure Improvement in
Developing Countries. |
Active in related professional organizations, Senior Undersecretary Bonoan
became President of the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE)
(CY 2001-2003), President of the Society of Philippine Accredited
Consultants (SPAC) (CY 1998-1999); President of the Road
Engineering Association of the Philippines (REAP) (CY
1994-1996); member of the Association of Government Civil
Engineers of the Philippines (AGCEP); member of the
Philippine Water Works Association (PWWA); and, member of the
Transportation Science Society of the Philippines (TSSP).
Senior
Undersecretary Bonoan, married with two (2) children, is both a licensed
civil engineer and environmental planner.
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