Domingo F. Panganiban

Panganiban was born on August 9, 1939, in Tanauan, Batangas. He finished his bachelor's degree in agriculture from the College of Agriculture of the University of the Philippines Los Baños in 1961.[3]

He worked as plant pest control worker, plant pest control officer and later as farm supervisor in Bureau of Plant Industry.[3] He rose through the ranks and became the Bureau Director from 1975 to 1986. From 1973 to 1986, Panganiban became the Executive Director of National Food and Agriculture Council (now Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries).[4] He also served as Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food from 1984 to 1986, where he became one of the proponents of the Masagana 99 program.[5]

In 1996, President Fidel V. Ramos appointed Panganiban as the Presidential Assistant for Agriculture.[2] In that same year, he served as Undersecretary for Agriculture until 2001.

From 2000 to 2001, he was appointed as the Administrator of the National Food Authority.

He served as Secretary of Agriculture from 2001 and again from 2005[3] to 2006. He then became the chief of staff of Senator Loren Legarda from 2001 to 2004.[4] He was appointed as lead convenor of National Anti-Poverty Commission from 2006[6] to 2010.

On August 15, 2022, President Bongbong Marcos appointed him as the Senior Undersecretary of the Department of Agriculture.[2]

After the People Power Revolution, Panganiban was tapped as the team manager and consultant of Purefoods in Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).[7] He briefly acted as head coach of the team in 1992 after the resignation of Ely Capacio.[8]