Artemio Panganiban - Metro Pacific Independent Director

Chf. Justice Artemio V. Panganiban serves as Lead NonExecutive Independent Director of Metro Pacific Investments Corporationrationration. He obtained his Associate in Arts With Highest Honors and later his Bachelor of Laws with Cum Laude and Most Outstanding Student honors. He founded and headed the National Union of Students of the Philippines. He is also the recipient of several honorary doctoral degrees. In 1995, he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court, and in 2005, Chief Justice of the Philippines. Aside from being a prodigious decision writer, he also authored eleven books while serving on the highest court of the land. His judicial philosophy is Liberty and Prosperity Under the Rule of Law. He believes that the legal profession and the judiciary must not only safeguard the liberty of his people but must also nurture their prosperity and economic wellbeing. To him, justice and jobs, ethics and economics, democracy and development, nay, liberty and prosperity must always go together one is useless without the other. On his retirement on 7 December 2006, his colleagues acclaimed him unanimously as the Renaissance Jurist of the 21st Century. Prior to entering public service, he was a prominent practicing lawyer, law professor, business entrepreneur, civic leader and Catholic lay worker. He was the only Filipino appointed by the late Pope John Paul II to be a member of the Vaticanbased Pontifical Council for the Laity . At present, he is a much soughtafter independent director and adviser of business firms, and writes a column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He is Director at Asian Terminals, Inc., Bank of the Philippine Island, GMA Holdings, Inc., GMA Network Inc., Jollibee Foods Corporationrationration, Manila Electric Company, Petron Corporationrationration, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company and Robinsons Land Corporationrationration, among others. since 2017.