1. 10 December 2009
Mr. Pipalawan O. Naga
IEMP Coordinator, Lanao del Sur
Member, MPM-Lanao del Sur
Dear Mr. Naga:
The School of Government (ASoG) and the other Professional Schools (Law, Graduate
School of Business, Medicine & Public Health) of the Ateneo de Manila University will be
jointly holding the Ateneo Professional Schools (APS) Sesquicentennial Congress to be
held at the APS complex, Rockwell Center, Makati City, on 29 January 2010, 8:30 am till
5:00 pm.
The overall theme of the Congress is "Building the Nation by Attacking the Poverty
Challenge through Building Capacity of Individuals and Institutions." The
Congress will offer plenary and concurrent sessions and booths in which leaders and
decision-makers like you in the private and the public sectors and in the areas of
governance, law, business, medicine & public health will explore and discuss several
opportunities to build our nation through specific and measurable means and ways.
It is our pleasure to formally invite you to be one of ASoG’s “storytellers” during the
concurrent sessions on Leadership & Governance scheduled from 10:30 am – 12 nn. We
would like to ask you to give a 20 to 30-minute talk on “Transforming Governance
For Sustainable Development.” We hope your session can focus on your experience in
working with the local government in advocating for environment issues, highlighting the
transformation of both you and the LGU you work with and also ASoG’s collaboration
with your institution. This session will be held in one of the classrooms of the APS. Since
the change of the Congress schedule from October to January was due to the Ondoy and
Pepeng aftermath, it would be good if your story can relate something about rising from a
natural disaster and approaching problems in a systemic way.
We hope you can join us.
With respect,
DR. ANTONIO G.M. LA ViÑA, JSD
Dean