PH Ambassador-Designate to Canada Arrives in Ottawa

OTTAWA 10 November 2020 — The Philippines Embassy in Canada is pleased to announce the arrival of Philippine Ambassador-designate Rodolfo D. Robles in Ottawa last October.

Ambassador-designate Robles’s appointment as Philippine Ambassador to Canada follows a distinguished career in the Philippine private and public sector. An honors graduate of San Beda College, he topped the bar exam in 1967 and proceeded to take his Master of Laws at Harvard University.

While known as founder and Senior Partner of Robles, Brillantes, Ricafrente, Nachura, & Aguirre Law Firm, Ambassador-designate Robles also has the distinction of being one of the founders of Arellano University School of Law, currently one of the largest law schools in the Philippines. He has also served in the academe as Professor of Law at San Beda College and Dean of Arellano Law School from 1977 to 1983.

His storied legal career includes his election as Delegate to the 1971 Constitutional Convention and, more recently, appointment as a member of the Consultative Committee to review the 1987 Constitution. Ambassador-designate Robles is also known as the principal author of the law creating the Office of the Ombudsman and principal author of the Philippines’ Miranda Doctrine.

Ambassador-designate Robles is scheduled to present his credentials to the Governor-General of Canada later this year. END

For more information, visit https://www.ottawape.dfa.gov.ph, https://www.philembassy.ca or https://www.facebook.com/PHinCanada/.