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.