ATTY. ALEX “PINOY” LACSON

Author of the Best-Selling Book, “12 Little Things Every Filipino Can Do To Help Our Country” and the famous poem “I Am Filipino”

Educational Background

Leadership Course, Haggai Leadership Institute, Singapore, where he delivered the valedictory address for all the graduates from 53 countries, 2007

Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A., 2002

Bachelor of Laws, University of the Philippines (U.P.) Diliman, Quezon City, 1996 (working student)

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, U.P. Diliman, Quezon City, 1991 (working student)

Philippine Military Academy, 1983-1986

Awards

Good Citizen/Good Filipino Award from the People Power Commission, February 25, 2009

Best Filipino (in Linguistics) Award from MI International School, March 2009

Young Filipino Achievers Award from Global Pinoy, 2006

Galing Pilipino Award from Galing Pilipino Movement, 2005

Work Experience

Partner, Malcolm Law Office, 2002-present

Principal, Alay Pinoy Publishing House, 2005-present

Lecturer, Mandatory Continuing Legal Education for Lawyers, LegalAdvantage and CD Asia Technology

Lecturer, PNP Values Formation Program

Lecturer, Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA)

Speaker, DIWA Foundation (Enhancement Program for Teachers)

Retreat Speaker to priests, lay ministers and faith communities under the Dilaab Foundation; Speaker, Parish Renewal Experience; Speaker, Haggai Leadership Training

Member of the Board of Trustees of World Vision (Philippines) and Alay Buhay Foundation, both working for poor and marginalized children, families and communities nationwide, and Dilaab Foundation, which promotes Heroic Christian Citizenship among our people

Counsel, United Nations Development Program, 1997-2004

Columnist, Business World newspaper, 1996-2003

Legal Counsel, People’s Task Force for Bases Clean-Up, representing victims of the toxic waste left in Subic Naval and Clark Air Bases

Court Attorney, Office of Justice Teodoro Padilla, Supreme Court of the Philippines, 1996

Chief of Staff, Office of Rep. Manuel Sanchez, House of Representatives, 1992-1995

Writer/Researcher, Davide Fact-Finding Commission on the 1989 Coup D’Etat, 1990

Affiliations

Trustee, World Vision (Philippines), 2007 – present

Trustee, Dilaab Foundation, 2007 – present

Trustee, Alay Buhay Foundation, 2007 – present

Member, Philippine Haggai

Member, Couples For Christ, Greenmeadows Chapter

Member, Rotary Club of the Philippines, Pasig Chapter

Member and former Lord Chancellor, Alpha Phi Beta, U.P. College of Law

Personal Data

Married to Atty. Pia Pena, blessed with 4 children

Born in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental, to Jose and Fe Lacson; one of 7 siblings; his father finished high school only while his mother was a public school teacher (Grade 2) all her life

Sponsor, together with his wife, of 38 scholars in Negros Occidental

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