Danilo Concepcion

Danilo Lardizabal "Danicon" Concepcion (born February 7, 1958) is the elected 21st President of the University of the Philippines. He is currently the Dean and a professor of Law at the UP College of Law and the Executive Director of the UP Bonifacio Global City Campus.

Concepcion graduated valedictorian from the Bancal Elementary School in Meycauayan, Bulacan in 1970. In 1974, he graduated as the high school valedictorian in De La Salle Araneta University in Malabon, where he also received the Most Outstanding Campus Journalist, Gerry Roxas Leadership Gold Medal, and Gold Eagle Award for Community Development.

He then took up B.S. Agricultural Engineering in the same university and graduated summa cum laude in 1979. He received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law in 1983 graduating cum laude. He passed the bar examination on the same year where he is one of the topnotcher. He finished his Master of Laws in Queen Mary University of London in 1986 as a Chevening Scholar of the United Kingdom government.

He attended a Summer Course in International Law of the Sea in Oxford University in England in 1986 and a Finance for Senior Executives course in Asian Institute of Management in 2000.

Academe

Concepcion started as faculty of Siena College in 1985. He served as Bar reviewer in Corporation and Civil Law at the UP Law Center Bar Review School and bar reviewer in Civil Law at the San Sebastian College School of Law and Adamson University College of Law. After serving as President of De La Salle Araneta University, he returned to UP in 2002 to become Associate Dean of the UP College of Law, Head of the UP Law Center and Director of the Institute of Judicial Administration until May 2006. He was appointed as Vice-President for Legal Affairs of the University of the Philippines in February 2011 and was elected as the 14th Dean of the UP College of Law on June 3, 2011.

Government Service

Concepcion served as member of the Sangguniang Bayan of Valenzuela and President of the Kabataang Barangay Federation of Metro Manila from 1976 to 1978. He was elected as the Youth Sector representative in the Interim Batasang Pambansa from 1978 to 1984. He also served as member of the Philippine delegation to the Asia Pacific Parliamentarian's Union (APPU) Conference held in Republic of Nauru in 1979, Vice chairman of the Philippine Youth delegation to the People's Republic of China in 1979, and member of the Philippine delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Spring Conference in Lagos, Nigeria in 1982. He served as Chief of Staff of the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Office of the President in 1996 as well as associate commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1996 until his resignation in 2000 to serve as President of De La Salle Araneta University.

Law Practice

He served as corporate receiver of Daikin-Alen Air Corditioning, Inc., Rehabilation receiver of Ariel Meat Products; Epixtar, Inc.; Capital Wireles, Inc.; Reynolds (Phil.) Inc. and as Securities and Exchange Commission commissioner-in-charge of the rehabilitation of the Victorias Milling Corporation.

He is presently serving as a member of the editorial board of the IBP Law Journal, arbitrator in the Ad Hoc Arbitration cases with the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc., Liquidator of several companies National Steel Corporation; Bacnotan Steel Industries, Inc.; EYCO Group of Companies; Rubberworld (Philippines), Inc.; East Asia Capital; Winsource Solutions, Inc.; Advent Capital Corporations; PET Plans, Inc. Corporate Counsel of Gordon Dario Reyes Hocson & Viado Law Office and of Tan & Concepcion Law Firm.

As UP President

Dean Concepcion emerged as the victor among the 6 nominees for the presidency of the University of the Philippines in 2016. The other nominees were: UP vice president for academic afairs Gisela Concepcion, former UP Diliman College of Engineering Dean and Science undersecretary for research and development Rowena Cristina Guevara, UP Diliman vice chancellor for academic affairs Benito Pacheco, Commission on Higher Education Commissioner and public administration professor Prospero de Vera III and former UP Diliman chancellor and National Institute of Physics professor Caesar Saloma.