Dr. Glenn Gregorio has been appointed as new director of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Searca), an inter-government treaty organization hosted by the Philippine government on the campus of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), for a three-year term and he assumed office on 1 May 1.
Gregorio is the eleventh director to hold the top Searca post since its establishment in November 1966 by the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (Seameo).