Emil Q. Javier

Emil Q. Javier

Emil Q. Javier was the 16th President of the University of the Philippines (UP) between 1993 & 1999. He was born on September 11, 1940, in Sta. Cruz, Laguna, Philippines and attended Cornell University.

He served as a presidential cabinet member and chair of the National Science Development Board. He worked at The Hague in the Netherlands as senior research fellow for the International Service for National Agricultural Research and went to Taiwan to direct work on vegetable research and development.

After a few years abroad, Javier returned to his country at the request of former President Fidel Valdez Ramos to lead UP as its president. The University of the Philippines is the premier state university and national university of the Philippines, founded on June 18, 1908.

He currently heads the National Academy of Science and Technology.


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