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ONE of the country’s renowned journalists, columnists, and public intellectuals, Amb. Rigoberto Tiglao is also a public servant who held various honorary posts in the Philippine government.
He was the press secretary from April through November 2002, as presidential spokesman with cabinet rank from April 2001 through November 2002; as presidential chief of staff from December 2002 through July 2004; as head of the presidential management staff from August 2004 through April 2006; and as Philippine ambassador to Greece and Cyprus from May 2006 through October 2010.
A man whose passion has always been in search and voicing the truth, Tiglao is one of the founding members of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, who had also served as president of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines from 1997 through 1998.
He started his journalism career at the Business Day in the early ’80s (1981 through 1986). His career thrived, propelling him to serve as business editor and columnist at the Manila Chronicle from 1986 through 1989 and as Manila bureau chief and correspondent of the redoubtable Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER), which was reckoned as the most prestigious international magazine in Asia owned by Dow Jones that was based in Hong Kong, from 1989 through 2000. He had been the senior vice president and editor-in-chief of then Inq7.net, and a regular columnist of the Philippine Daily Inquirer from September 2000 through March 2002, and from October 2010 through January 2013.
Tiglao is still very much active in his professional field. From January 2013 to the present, he writes for The Manila Times with columns featured every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
As a multi-awarded journalist, Tiglao was a fellow of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan, from May through October 2002. He is the only Filipino journalist given the top three awards in the field, namely fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University from 1988 through 1989; best news reporter by the Catholic Mass Media Awards in 1983; and one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men for Print Journalism by the Philippine Jaycees in 1992. He was also awarded best economic journalist for Asia by the Mitsubishi Corp. Foundation in 1991.
He has been the most prolific columnist, bar none, on the South China Sea territorial and maritime disputes, writing 83 articles first in the regional magazine FEER and then, especially since 2011, in the Manila Times.
He devoted a major chapter on the topic in his best-selling 2018 book Debunked. His second best-selling book, 2022 Debacle: The Aquino regime’s Scarborough fiasco and the South China Sea arbitration deception, is considered by many as one of the most comprehensive analyses of the disputes in that area, its many controversial findings unquestioned to this date.
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