The Philippine Ambassador to the Court of St. James's

His Excellency ENRIQUE A. MANALO

   Ambassador Manalo is one of the most experienced diplomats of the Philippine foreign service career corps. He was deputy foreign secretary for policy from 2007 to 2010.

   Before arriving in London, he was the Philippine Ambassador to Belgium. His foreign policy experience, especially on ASEAN and UN matters, is very extensive, having been previoulsy assigned to Geneva, New York and Washington DC.

   The Ambassador was a former Chairman of the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He was also the Philippine senior official to the 2010 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, which was held while the Philippines was chairman of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.

   He is a product of the University of the Philippines, with a postgraduate degree in economics.