Prof. Ethel Agnes P. Valenzuela
SEAMEO INNOTECH, Philippines
Head, Research Studies Unit
Research Specialist
SEAMEO INNOTECH, Philippines
- Director IV of the Commission on Higher Education (1995), where she headed the Offices of Student Services and International Affairs Service
- Chairperson, Education Department of De La Salle-Lipa
- Assistant Professorial Lecturer V position at the Educational Management Department, College of Education, De La Salle University, and Manila
- Has substantial experience in doing policy research on internationalization of higher education, lifelong learning and student financial assistance programs
- Handled four policy research studies of the UNESCO Education Committee
- Appointed as a UNESCO Commissioner in Education in 2004, where she served as Vice-Chairperson and headed EDCOM’s Technical Working Group of the project “Inventory on Lifelong Learning Programs in the Philippines”
- Served as one of the Philippine negotiators for multilateral agreements under APEC, ASEAN, JPEPA and other bilateral agreements on higher education
- Has written and developed Internationalization of Higher Education Model and has written articles on educational innovation brought about by globalization and internationalization
- Member, Board of Directors of the University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific (UMAP)
- CHED Technical Panel member on Distance Education
- She served as resource person and expert advisor to some national and international associations and government inter-agency committees such as the APEC Engineer Register Project, the association of hotel, restaurant and tourism educators of the Philippines on matters pertaining to overseas internship, the UMAP Council-Philippines, the Special Committee on Scholarship and the newly established UNESCO Lifelong Learning Center for Sustainable Development.
- Has chaired the Higher Education Group at United States International Visitors Program (IVP-Philippines)
- Sent by the US Department of States to several universities in the United States to study higher education management for the Twenty-first Century
- Holds the Career Executive Service Officer IV rank (CESO IV) in the Philippine Government
- She is a member of various international professional and academic organizations including the Phi Lambda Theta Honor Society of Women Leaders in Education and the Phi Delta Kappa
