(UPDATE) PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has named Social Security System (SSS) Executive Vice President Voltaire Agas as the agency’s officer in charge (OIC).
Agas’ appointment was signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on October 17.
Agas started his career at the SSS in 2012 as its chief legal counsel, a position he held until 2022.
Voltaire Agas. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
He is a seasoned public servant with more than three decades of government service in various capacities, such as in the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO), National Prosecution Service, both under the Department of Justice and as a trial judge in Quezon City.
Agas is the first career official coming from the ranks of the SSS to be designated as its OIC.
After obtaining his law degree from the San Beda University, he began his legal career as a PAO lawyer, which he held from 1989 to 1994.
His exemplary service as a public attorney earned him the Outstanding Public Servant Award, a recognition given to him by PAO chief Persida Rueda-Acosta in August 2024 during the 8th MCLE-Accredited National Convention of Public Attorneys.
After graduation from the University of the Philippines, he was engaged as a socio-economist in community development projects under the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.
As a lawyer, he had more than a decade of experience as a corporate legal manager and chief compliance and governance officer of Ayala Life Insurance Group now known as the BPI AIA Life Assurance Corporation.
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