AAHRMEI SP23DEC Present

PROFILE

PROF. DEAN. IGNACIO C. CORDOVA, JR., DBA, FBE, CHE, CHCD

He is the College Dean of the College of Hospitality and Institutional Management and College of Business and Accountancy of the Our Lady of Fatima University with 6 campuses. His directional statement of "Driven by Vision, Fueled by Innovation" for the two colleges helped him achieve salient accomplishments on quality assurance, international and local accreditation systems, industry-driven collaboration, cross-border education, international mutual recognition, and curriculum innovation, for which the college has acquired international accreditation from the International Accreditation Council for Business Education in the USA and from the Institute of Hospitality-UK, aside from being recognized as one of the Centers of Excellence (COE) of the Commission on Higher Education. His Business Program recently received an award from the First Internationalization Award in Philippine Higher Education of CHED. He is the current Vice-President of the Asian Council of Leaders, Administrators, Deans, and Educators in Business (ACLADEB) and the founding Chair of the International Association of Certified Hospitality and Tourism Professionals (IACHTP). He is a member of the Philippine Commission on Higher Education Technical Committee for Hospitality and Tourism Education and an accreditor of the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation. Internationally, he is one of the key personalities of Asia Cooperation Dialogue-University Network, otherwise known as ACD-UN. Currently, he is the Chair of the Editorial Board of the Hospitality and Tourism Research Journal in Asia and the Pacific. He has served various professional organizations such as the Philippine Association of Collegiate Schools of Business (PACSB), Association of Administrators in Hospitality, Hotel and Restaurant Management Educational Institutions (AAHRMEI) and became the Director for Education of the Philippine Marketing Association (PMA), a more than 65 years of age Industry Association in Philippine Marketing.

He represented the Philippines in the Harvard Conference for Asian and International Relations in February 2011, an annual assembly of youth leaders organized by the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations. Last October 2012, he attended the Japan International Cooperation Agency-Training Program for Young Leaders (JICA's TPYL) in Japan to complete a course in Community Tourism Promotion. He completed an international certification course of the American Hotel Lodging Association- Educational Institute (AHLEI) to become a licensed and Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE). He took the professional examination of The Institute of Tourism and Hospitality Professionals-United Kingdom (ITHP-UK, London) to become a Certified Hospitality Professional. He is now a CHP and CTP member and ITHP reviewer. He received an Exemplary Award of Leadership in Online Education from the American Hospitality Academy (AHA).

His core advocacy and engagement to bridge the gap between the industry and academia in valuing knowledge- based economy for developing countries enabled him to share in various International Knowledge Network. His consulting projects for business continuity, quality training framework in academe, facilitation of market research and intelligence, family business, change, and OD intervention management, talent acquisition, business strategy, and innovation consulting projects made the NICHE ADVISORS PHILIPPINES a strategic consulting company for multi-sectoral entities.

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2ND INTERNATIONAL AND THE PHILIPPINES 23RD NATIONAL CONVENTION

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