IRRI BOT Profile: Chair Emerlinda Roman
Channel: International Rice Research Institute
Date: 2013-10-14

Dr. Emerlinda R. Roman, the current BOT chair of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI; http://irri.org) is a professor at the College of Business Administration at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. She made history not only as University of the Philippines (UP)'s Centennial president but also as its first woman president. Aside from having been chancellor of the UP Diliman campus from 1991 to 1993 and from 1999 to 2004, 

Dr. Roman's experience in university administration includes former positions as vice chancellor for administration, secretary of the university and of the Board of Regents, vice-president for administration, and member of the Board of Regents representing the faculty. She also holds important positions in several foundations, most notably as president of the UP Diliman Foundation, Inc.

Dr. Roman obtained her B.S. in agriculture from UPLB in 1972 and her master of agribusiness management and Ph.D. in business administration from UP Diliman in 1977 and 1989, respectively. 

She held various positions at the UP College of Business Administration before being tapped to serve the university in various other capacities. She has received several awards, including Outstanding Professor (1995); Outstanding Alumnus for Public Service, UP College of Business Administration; and Outstanding Alumnus for Academic Administration, UP Los Baños.