Former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the 14th President of the Republic of the Philippines, is celebrating her 67th Birth Anniversary on April 5, 2014. Her Presidency (January 20, 2001-June 30, 2010) was marked by sustained socio-economic progress in the country, for which she was largely credited. She laid the foundations for the country’s sustained growth amid the 2007 Asian global recession.
Former President and now Congresswoman Arroyo was an economics professor at Ateneo de Manila University and University of the Philippines and Chairperson of Department of Economics of Assumption College before she entered the government service in 1987 in the administration of then President Corazon C. Aquino, as Undersecretary of Department of Trade and Industry, serving concurrently as Executive Director of Garments and Textile Board. She worked to attain a robust growth for the garments industry.
She won election as Senator in 1992, and then topped the 1995 senatorial race. In the Senate, she crafted measures on trade and commerce, the economy, protection of women, children, the vulnerable sector, and overseas Filipino workers. She filed over 400 bills and authored 55 laws of wide-ranging significance, such as liberalizing foreign investments, export development, and promoting high-value crops. After serving as Senator from 1992 to 1998, she was elected the country’s 12th Vice President, and concurrently headed the Department of Social Welfare and Development during the Estrada Administration. She was installed into the presidency on January 20, 2001, after EDSA 2 and was elected to a full six-year term in the May 10, 2004 polls. She was elected to the House of Representatives on May 10, 2010, representing the 2nd district of Pampanga.
Born in San Juan City to former President Diosdado P. Macapagal, the 9th President of the Philippines, and Dr. Evangelina Macaraeg Macapagal, Congresswoman Arroyo studied at the Assumption Convent, graduating valedictorian in 1964. She went on to Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC, in the United States of America. She finished her Bachelor of Arts in Economics at Assumption Convent, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1968. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Economics from Ateneo de Manila University in 1978 and Doctorate in Economics from the University of the Philippines in 1985.
The Manila Bulletin, led by its Chairman of the Board of Directors Dr. Emilio T. Yap, President and Publisher Atty. Hermogenes P. Pobre, Executive Vice President Dr. Emilio C. Yap III, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Cris J. Icban Jr., Business Editor Loreto D. Cabañes, Directors, Officers and Employees, greet Former President now Congresswoman of the Second District of Pampanga Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on her 67th Birth Anniversary. We wish her the best, good health, and success in all endeavors. Happy Birthday, Congresswoman Arroyo! MABUHAY! 
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