Sec. Roberto E.A Borje

He has a degree in Communication Arts and was recognized as the most outstanding Liberal Arts graduate of UIC in 2001. He took the Foreign Service Officer Examinations given in 2002 and holds the distinction of being the only applicant from a Mindanao testing center to pass that year’s rigorous tests. His first foreign assignment was at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C. in 2009 where he served as Third Secretary and Vice Consul.

Prior to the Department of Foreign Affairs, he was Supervising Economic Development Specialist of the Communications and Media Affairs Division of the Office of the President’s Mindanao Economic Development Council now the Mindanao Development Authority.  Before government service, Borje was concurrent newsdesk and anchor for ABS-CBN Davao and live correspondent and producer for TV Patrol Manila and ANC.

Borje was also a fellow at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. Borje is a recipient of the Orden ng Lakandula, Ranggong Pinuno, conferred by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and of the Gawad Mabini, Ranggong Kasugo, conferred by Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto G. Romulo both awarded in August 2007. He is the son of retired Rear Admiral Adolf P. Borje of San Fernando, La Union and the former Eleanor de Toro Alabado of Koronadal, South Cotabato. He is a proud Mindanaoan, having grown up in Davao City and South Cotabato.