President Duterte has appointed Karen Y. Jimeno as undersecretary for disaster resiliency of the Presidential Management Staff (PMS). Before her new appointment, Jimeno served as undersecretary for Legal Affairs and Priority Projects the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
A copy of Jimeno’s new appointment paper dated May 15 was released to the media on May 16.
It will be recalled that Jimeno was a defense lawyer and spokesman for the impeachment trial of the late Chief Justice Renato S. Corona in 2012.
In 2017 she was also appointed as legal counsel for the Senate Ethics Committee for the 17th Congress.
Jimeno also served as head for External Affairs and Communications for the Presidential Assistant for Rehabilitation and Recovery, alongside Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson Sr. from 2014 to 2015, under former President Benigno S. Aquino III.
Aside from Jimeno, Malacañang also released the appointment papers of Benjamin Palmero as board member of Philippine National Oil Co. Renewables Corp., Secretary Bernadette Fatima Romulo-Puyat as ad interim secretary of Department of Tourism and Abdullah D. Mama-o as Special Envoy of the President to Kuwait.
Palmero replaced Ashary P. Maongco and is expected to serve the unexpired term of office that began on July 1, 2017 and will end on June 30, 2018.
Meanwhile, Mama-o will serve as special envoy from May 1 to October 31, 2018.