Leadership Experience
Santo Tomas held other positions as policymaker until her appointment as Administrator of the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) from May 1982 to September 1987. She was appointed Assistant Secretary at the Department of Education, and was shortly re-appointed at the DOLE.
In March 1988, she was appointed Chairperson of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) until March 1995. The CSC is the central personnel agency of the government of the Philippines.
In 2001, she led an Executive Search Committee tasked to find qualified professionals to man key positions in the Cabinet and attached agencies of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Soon, she was appointed by President Arroyo as Secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
Santo Tomas was elected as Chairperson of the Governing Body of the International Labor Organization based in Geneva, Switzerland.
In 2006, Santo Tomas was appointed by President Arroyo as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Development Bank of the Philippines, a state-owned financial institution with a nationwide branch office network.
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