Lawyer and Corporate Governance Specialist Jose Tomas Syquia joins the CCP Board of Trustees

 The Cultural Center of the Philippines welcomes Atty. Jose Tomas Syquia to its Board of Trustees. He took his oath of office on January 28, 2025.

Syquia has served 17 years in the private sector, specializing in corporate governance and securities law, government procurement, telecommunications, arbitration and mediation, and consultancy work. His decades-long career in public service started as a state counsel at the Department of Justice in 1998. He later joined the Securities and Exchange Commission as a director in 2001, and as an executive director of the Procurement Service in 2014.

The newly-appointed Trustee has been a member of the Philippine Bar since 1995. He holds a Master of Law degree focusing on Human Rights Law, Humanitarian Law, and Law of International Organizations from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. 

Trustee Syquia is the son of the late Ambassador Enrique Syquia, a renowned international lawyer, diplomat, and law professor who founded Syquia Law Offices. It was once considered the biggest single proprietorship law firm in the country with one of the most extensive private law libraries. He strives to live through his father’s examples. 

Syquia will join Chairman Jaime C. Laya; co-chairs Maria Margarita Moran-Floirendo and Carissa Coscolluella; President Kaye Tinga; with Trustees Marivic del Pilar, Junie del Mundo, Isidro Consunji, Jonathan Velasco, Felix “Monino” Duque, and Atty. Gizela Gonzalez in helping the CCP fulfill its mission to be the leading institution for arts and culture in the Philippines.