Secretary Sharon S. Garin
Department of Energy
July 2025 - Present
Secretary Sharon S. Garin, a Certified Public Accountant and lawyer by profession. She also holds key leadership positions as Chairperson of the Nuclear Energy Program Coordinating Committee and as the Department’s Legislative Liaison. Secretary Garin served in the House of Representatives for twelve (12) years, from 2010 to 2022. She was the first party-list representative elected as Deputy Speaker, and the first female Deputy Speaker from the Province of Iloilo. She holds a degree in Accounting from the University of the Philippines Iloilo, a law degree from the Ateneo de Manila School of Law, and an International MBA from the Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ESADE) in Spain
Secretary Raphael P.M Lotilla
Department of Energy
July 2022 - June 2025
Secretary Raphael P.M. Lotilla has served in government for more than 20 years in various capacities --- professor of law in the University of the Philippines (UP), Undersecretary at the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) under three Presidents, President and CEO of PSALM, besides sharing his expertise as legal consultant to several Senate Presidents and Senators. He is currently in his second stint as Secretary of Energy. He also served as Regional Programme Director of a regional seas project funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
In the private sector, he was an independent director in several publicly listed conglomerates with diverse interests, including energy and financial services.
March 2005 - July 2007
Prior to being appointed as Secretary of Energy, Mr. Raphael P. M. Lotilla was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM). PSALM is the government corporation tasked to manage the privatization of generation assets, IPP contracts and other non-power assets, including the management of financial obligations and stranded contract costs of the state-owned National Power Corporation (NPC).
Before he was appointed PSALM President, Mr. Lotilla briefly served as PSALM Chief Operating Officer and was previously Deputy Director-General (DDG), with the rank of Undersecretary, of the National Economic Development Authority, from 1996 to January 2004. As DDG, he was designated as National Coordinator of the Philippine Council for Sustainable Development, where he pushed measures supportive of clean technologies and sustainable livelihoods, among other sustainable development advocacies.
Mr. Lotilla was also the supervising official of the Secretariat of the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory (LEDAC), the advisory and consultative body to the Philippine President and the Legislature. He actively contributed in formulating the Executive Branch's position in the deliberations of Congress and the bicameral conference committee meetings. Among the legislative reform measures he was sought to help in crafting was the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001.
Mr. Lotilla began his career in the academia as Assistant Professor of Law in 1985 at the University of the Philippines (UP) upon his admission to the Bar. He also served as UP's Vice-President for Public Affairs in 1991 and as Director of the Institute of International Legal Studies of the UP Law Center from 1989 to 1996. He was appointed Professor of Law in 1995. Prior to joining the government, Mr. Lotilla served as legal consultant to the Senate and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Lotilla holds undergraduate degrees in Psychology and History, a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines, and a Master of Laws degree from the University of Michigan Law School. As law professor, he taught courses including Constitutional Law, International Law, Corporation Law, Special Contract, Government Control of Businesses, International Economic Law, and Special Problems in Citizenship.
Mr. Lotilla hails from Sibalom, Antique, and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Philippine Collegian in 1983-1984.
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