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The Commissioners

/ The Commissioners

Under the PCA, the Commission shall be composed of a chairperson and four commissioners. The chairperson and the commissioners have the rank equivalent of cabinet secretary and undersecretary, respectively. They are appointed by the President for a term of seven years without reappointment.

COMMISSIONER MARAH VICTORIA S. QUEROL

Prior to joining the PCC, Commissioner Marah Victoria S. Querol was Senior Deputy Executive Secretary, with the rank of Secretary, at the Office of the President. As a technocrat, she rose through the ranks from being a Technical Assistant under its Strategic Initiatives Management Office (SIMO) in 2010 to Undersecretary in 2016-2022. Having served under two Presidents, Commissioner Querol played an instrumental role in crafting key policies of the last two administrations.

Commissioner Querol is backed by experience in economics, business, and law. She obtained her Juris Doctor degree and Master of Business Administration degree at the Ateneo de Manila University, and her Economics degree at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

COMMISSIONER MICHAEL B. PELOTON

Prior to joining the PCC, Commissioner Michael B. Peloton was the Board Director at the Philippine Reclamation Authority. In 2019, he was appointed as overseer of the Insurance Commission. He also served as a technical assistant at the Office of the President in 2016, and as a consultant thereafter.Commissioner Peloton has 17 years of experience in private law practice.

He was also a Constitutional Law professor at the Ateneo de Davao University and IT professor at the University of Immaculate Concepcion.

Commission Peloton earned his Bachelor of Laws and Computer Science degrees from Ateneo de Davao University.

COMMISSIONER LOLIBETH RAMIT-MEDRANO

Commissioner Lolibeth Ramit-Medrano has extensive experience in government service with expertise on intellectual property (IP), public policy and administration, international trade negotiations, international cooperation, and legislative affairs. Her 22-year public service record spans different technical and leadership roles, most recently as Undersecretary of the Office of the President. Prior to that, she was the Director of the Bureau of Patents at the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) where she received the 2020 Presidential Gawad Career Executive Service (CES) Award for her exemplary performance in government service.



Commissioner Medrano graduated cum laude with a degree in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman and obtained her Juris Doctor (JD) degree from San Beda University College of Law. She earned her Master’s Degree in Politics and Public Policy as an Australian Development Scholar at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and Master of Laws specializing in Intellectual Property at the Ateneo De Manila Law School.



Commissioner Medrano completed advanced courses and programs on IP and trade offered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland. She served as the first Chairperson of the ASEAN Industrial Design Task Force. She is also a member of the Supreme Court Sub-Committee for the Revision of the Rules of Procedure for the Intellectual Property Rights Cases. She is a law professor of IP courses at the Ateneo De Manila Law School, San Beda Alabang College of Law, and UP Open University

COMMISSIONER FERDINAND M. NEGRE

Prior to joining PCC, Commissioner Negre was the dean at the Manuel L. Quezon University School of Law, was the chairperson of the Commercial Law and Intellectual Property (IP) Department of the Ateneo Law School, and is a professor and faculty member at the Ateneo Law School. He is a founding partner of Bengzon-Negre-Untalan Law where he handled IP cases, was a member of the Supreme Court Sub-Committee on Special Rules in IP Cases, and served as an Examiner for Mercantile Law in the 2014 Bar Examinations. He was also the president of the Licensing Executives Society of the Philippines, corporate secretary of the Philippine Franchise Association, and corporate counsel of the Philippine Retailers Association.



He is backed by expertise in law and business being a certified public accountant, IP law expert, and legal educator.



Commissioner Negre obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree in Commerce, Major in Accounting from the University of Sto. Tomas, a Juris Doctor degree from the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law, and a Master of Intellectual Property from Pierce University in New Hampshire, USA. He attended a Post-Graduate Scholarship Program on Intellectual Property at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center in Germany and went to the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute in London, UK. He is currently taking a Post Graduate Diploma Program on Economics for Competition Law at King’s College London.