GUEST OF HONOR AND SPEAKER’S PROFILE
	Atty. Pablito Sanidad

PRESONAL DATA Date of Birth: 25 April 1944 Place of Birth: Narvacan, Ilocos Sur Spouse: Susan Fianza   EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT 1963: St. Louis University, Baguio City Bachelor of Arts 1986-Outstanding Alumni Award, SLU Alumni Association 1967: University of the Philippines, College of Law President, U.P. College of Law Sophomores, Class 67 Staff Member: Philippine Law Journal – Official Publication, U.P. College of Law U.P. Law Register – Student Publication, U.P. College of Law   PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Bar Topnotcher - No. 8, 1967 Bar Examinations Human Rights Lawyer – National Chairman of the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) for 12 years Incumbent Board Member – Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, International Commission of Jurists (ICS), Geneva, Switzerland ICJ Trainor/Lecturer – Member of a team from the International Commission on Jurists that trained the Chief Justice and other Justices of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals and Judges of lower courts of the newly established Democratic Government in Cambodia (1993, Cambodia) Exemplary Diego Silang Achievers Awards – Outstanding Ilocano in the Field of Law (1987, Caba, La Union) Chairman – Regional Council for Human Rights in Asia (1988, Singapore) World Council Member – SOS Torture (World Organization Torture) Geneva Switzerland Co-Chairman – Interim Human Rights Committee, Northern Luzon Legal Consultant – Northern Luzon Human Rights Council Board Member – Task Force Detainees of the Philippines Chairman – Legal Aid Committee, Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Ilocos Sur Chapter Member – Free Legal assistance Group (FLAG), Anti-Death Penalty Committee Senior Partner – Sanidad & Villanueva Law Offices, Baguio City Practicing Lawyer Since 1968 Cited – Lawyer of the Year for Region I and the Cordilleras Professor – Baguio Colleges Foundation, College of Law Presentor - The Philippine Situation, OMCT/SOS Torture, General Assembly (1986, Geneva, Switzerland) Presentor - The Philippine Situation, Asian Cultural Forum on Development Expert Group Meeting (1989, Bangkok, Thailand) PUBLIC SERVICE Vice-Governor – Province of Ilocos Sur, 1972 Deputy Minister of Labor – Under the Aquino Administration Chairman – Philippine Government Panel, U.S.-R.P. Joint labor Committee on the U.S. Bases Philippine Government Delegate – International labor Organization 1986 Conference, Geneva Switzerland Chairman – For Region I league of Vice Governors and City Vice Mayors of the Philippines Ilocos and Cordillera Leader – Of the Boycott movement against the 1981 Presidential elections under the Marcos dictatorship Leading Campaigner for the “NO” vote on the Cordillera Autonomous Region Vice President for Northern Luzon – UNIDO (United Nationalist Democratic Organization). One of the principal and leading political alliances against the Marcos dictatorship Cited – “Oppositionist of the Year” (1979) Outstanding Baguio Citizen Awardee as Lawyer for Human Rights (1986) Convenor – Baguio Erap Resign Movement (2001) Writer and Media Man   WRITER AND MEDIA MAN Columnist – Baguio Midland Courier Former contributor – Midweek Vibrations Former Contributing Editor & Columnist – the UNION POST Cited – “The Columnist of the Year” 1981- The GOLD ORE Author – Case Notes and review Materials for Political and Constitutional Law and other selected papers.