| After
serving as Batanes’ local chief executive for three
terms, Governor Telesforo F. Castillejos is back at the helm
of the provincial government to carry on the various development
efforts he had begun in the past.
He joined the civil
service in 1979 as the provincial engineer of Batanes, a position
he held until he filed his candidacy for the 1998 gubernatorial
race, which he won handily. His mandate as governor was reaffirmed
twice in the 1992 and 1995 elections.
In the May 14, 2007
elections, he made a successful comeback as the new governor
of Batanes after a nine-year hiatus from public service.
For two years, from
1992 to 1993, he engaged himself in consultancy as the project
manager of the MOHRI Group of Companies.
Gov. Castillejos earned
his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering at the Mapua
Institute of Technology. For his post-graduate studies, he
attended the executive program at the Kennedy School of Government
of Harvard University in the United States, and took up Masters
in Business Administration at the Philippine School of Business
Administration.
He
attended various local and international workshops including
that on Small and Medium Enterprise Promotions Program in
Helsinki, Finland; on Economic Promotions by Local Authorities
sponsored by the German Foundation for International Development
held in Berlin, Germany; on Local Government Administration
of the Australian International Development Assistance Program
in Melbourne, Australia; on Technical Management of Local
Government at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
in Melbourne, Australia, among others.
He was born on January 5, 1947 and is married to Susan Samson-Castillejos,
who bore him seven children.
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