Former airport official Alexander Cauguiran has been appointed as officer-in-charge president of the Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC), replacing Emigdio Tanjuatco III.
Cauguiran was appointed at a Board meeting on August 19, his appointment taking effect on the same day, Transportation Assistant Secretary Cherie Mercado-Santos said.
Cauguiran is not new to CIAC, having served as vice president and chief operating officer of the Clark International Airport (CRK) operator from 2006 to 2010. He was a member of the Philippine air panel that crafted the air rights and services agreements that paved the way for the entry of foreign air carriers at then Diosdado Macapagal International Airport, now CRK.
An advocate of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport-CRK dual airport system, he led the launch of the Advocacy for Dual Airport Priority held at Clark Freeport last April.
Under the term of former president Gloria Arroyo, whom he helped during her re-election bid, Cauguiran was appointed as undersecretary of the National Anti-Poverty Commission and also became a political attaché in San Francisco, U.S. He also served as assistant secretary of the Office of External Affairs in Malacañang, and was a councilor of Angeles City in Pampanga from 1998 to 2004 and chief of staff to the mayor of Angeles from 2011 to 2016.
He is also the president of the Partido Abe Kapampangan, a citizen-based political party with headquarters in Pampanga.
