{"id":24419,"date":"2014-09-02T06:26:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T22:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24419"},"modified":"2014-09-02T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T03:57:56","slug":"new-philippine-ambassador-to-canada-assumes-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/02\/new-philippine-ambassador-to-canada-assumes-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet new Philippine ambassador to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/amb.-girlie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/amb.-girlie.jpg\" alt=\"amb. girlie\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/amb.-girlie.jpg 210w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/amb.-girlie-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Petronila P. Garcia is the new Philippine Ambassador to Canada. She is a career diplomat who previously served as ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt with concurrent jurisdiction over Sudan (2004-2007) and ambassador to Israel (2007-2011). Prior to her assignment to Canada, she had been designated as the assistant secretary for Middle East and African Affairs of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) &#8211; a position she held since August 2011.<\/p>\n<p>She was born on January 22,1956, in San Juan, Rizal, Philippines, divorced with two children Angelo Victor Garcia and Jose Gabriel Reyes.<\/p>\n<p>She has a bachelor&#8217;s degree in Behavioral Science from Maryknoll College (1977) and a bachelor of laws degree. She is also a member of Mensa, the oldest and largest high IQ society in the world.<\/p>\n<p>She joined DFA in 1981, after passing the Foreign Service Officer&#8217;s examination. She also passed the Career Minister&#8217;s examination in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia served in the Philippine Embassy in Singapore (1984-1987) as third secretary and consul; the Philippine Consulate General in Sydney, Australia (1987-1992) as consul; the Philippine Embassy in Tel Aviv (1993-1995) as counsellor; the Philippine Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa (1995-1997) as counsellor and charge d&#8217; affaires a.i.; the Philippine Embassy in South Korea (1997-1999) as minister and charge d&#8217; affaires, a.i.<\/p>\n<p>She hails from Negros Occidental, Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petronila P. Garcia is the new Philippine Ambassador to Canada. She is a career diplomat who previously served as ambassador &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1481,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-comm","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}