widow and mother of five children<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nA diplomat for nearly 3 decades, she is a graduate in International Relations (University of the Philippines, Diliman, 1977) and has a Master’s degree in Migration Studies (Miriam College, Quezon City, Philippines 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Princesa as Philippine Ambassador to the Holy See in January, a move the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philipppines welcomed. Her appointed was later approved by the bicameral Commission on Appointments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grace Relucio Princesa has held the following positions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1979-1986 – Official at the Ministry of Human Settlements in Manila<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1986-1989 – Acting director and then director of the Department of European Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1989-1990 – Special Assistant at the Department of Consular Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1990-1994- Consul General in Chicago, U.S.A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1994-1996- Consul General in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1996-1998- First Secretary of Embassy and Consul in Cairo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1998-1999- Director of the Department for Asia and the Pacific at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1999-2001- Director of the Department of Personnel and Administrative Services at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2001-2003 – Charg\u00e9 D\u2019Affaires and Consul General, Embassy in Baghdad<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2003-2007 – Minister and Consul General at the Permanent Mission to the European Union in Geneva<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2007-2009 – Executive Director of the Department for the United Nations and Other International Organizations (UNIO) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2010 – and Permanent Representative to the International Renewable Energy Agency – IRENA<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2009-2015 – Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since 2015 – Assistant Secretary at the Legislative Liaison Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CONGRATULATIONS AMBA GRACE, WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU! Malaki ang paghanga at panggalang ng Patnubay kay Ambassador Grace Princesa dahil siya ay napakahusay at maka-OFW na servant leader Ms. Grace Relucio Princesa presented her…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[54,40,15,17,23,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14927,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915\/revisions\/14927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patnubay.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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