PHL Consul General to Dubai Leads Ateneo LSE Batch 48 Graduation Ceremonies

Philippine Consul General Paul Raymund P. Cortes and Mme. Yasmin Balajadia-Cortes with the POLO and LSE officers and Batch 48 graduates. The Consul General led the Graduation Ceremony of the Ateneo School of Government’s (ASOG) Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship (LSE) Batch 48 on Friday, October 20 at the Metropolitan Hotel, Dubai. He urged the graduates to exert greater efforts to harness the creative and innovative talents of Overseas Filipinos to provide new solutions to emerging global challenges, to explore avenues, to play a more productive and meaningful role in nation building, and be key partners of government in improving the lives and well-being of the Filipino nation. The LSE Program, established in 2013, is a 7-month course conducted by the Philippine Business Council in Dubai and the ASOG in collaboration with the Philippine Consulate General in Dubai. The Dubai LSE program has trained over 350 overseas Filipinos based in Dubai.