De Borja, Marciano R.
Marciano R. de Borja is a career diplomat with the rank of Chief of Mission II in the Philippine Foreign Service, currently Consul General in Guam. He most recently served as Senior Special Assistant in the Office of the Undersecretary for Special and Ocean Concerns at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila and as Minister at the Philippine Mission to the United Nations in New York. Previous posts included the Philippine embassies in Japan, Chile, and Spain and as director for the United States Division in the Department of Foreign Affairs. He holds degrees from the University of the Philippines and the University of Navarra (Spain) and studied international politics at the University of Tokyo. He is the author of FSO IV: Starting a Career in the Philippine Foreign Service (1999) and Basques in the Philippines (2005).
Here is the untold story of how, in the wake of independence in July 1946, the U.S. Department of State and selected U.S. Foreign Service posts trained the first officer corps of the Philippine Foreign Service, affectionately dubbed the “State Department Boys.” These pioneer Filipino diplomats eventually played pivotal roles in Philippine diplomacy...