José David Lápuz (19 April 1938 – 8 March 2023) was a Filipino educator and cultural administrator. Lapuz previously served as one of the commissioners of the

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National Commission of the Philippines (UNACOM) and was a member of the UNESCO Advisory Committee on Human Rights and Poverty based in

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. He previously worked as a lecturer in

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and political science at the

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until his death in 2023.

Career

Lapuz received his bachelor's degree at the

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and his post-graduate studies in International Politics and Foreign Policy at the

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in Scotland. He started teaching at the University of Santo Tomas in 1970. Lapuz attended and read papers before the Annual Conference of the

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of the

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, the

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and the

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of New York. He lectured in the following schools:

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, and the

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, L.S.E.,

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and

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. He has also lectured at the

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, now St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; and the then USSR Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow. He also delivered formal lectures at the Humboldt Universitat Zu Berlin (University of Berlin) in Berlin, Germany. In 1999, Lapuz was first appointed United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (Unesco) commissioner to the Committee on Social and Human Sciences. In 2002, he was re-appointed for a further three-year term. In March 2009, President

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal-Arroyo (; born April 5, 1947), often referred to as PGMA or GMA, is a Filipino academic and politician who served as the 14th president of the Philippines from Presidency of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, 2001 to 2010 ...

appointed Lápuz as Presidential Consultant. By November 2009, he was appointed commissioner and board member of the

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. In March 2017, Lapuz was appointed by President

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as Presidential Consultant for Education and International Organization under the Office of the President. He was Duterte's political science professor at the

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in the 1960s. Earlier, in 2016, President Duterte had expressed his intent to appoint Lapuz as the Chairperson of the

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. However, this was met with criticism due to plagiarism allegations committed by Lapuz, as well as questions on qualification as raised by his former students.

References

External links

Knights of Rizal website
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