caption predecessor successor birth_place president imagesize office birth_date order term_start article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
dr. emil q. javier jose v. abueva francisco nemenzo , jr. . sta . cruz , laguna fidel v. ramos 250px president of the university of the philippines september 11 , 1940 17th 1993 emil q. javier
 1999 emil q. javier university administrator , educator , agronomist cornell university university of illinois
emil q. javier

emil q. javier was the 17th president of the university of the philippines between 1993 and 1999 .
an american-educated plant geneticist and agronomist , he was born on september 11 , 1940 , in sta .
cruz , laguna , philippines .
he served as a presidential cabinet member and chair of the national science development board .
he worked at the hague in the netherlands as senior research fellow for the international service for national agricultural research and went to taiwan to direct work on vegetable research and development .
after a few years abroad , javier returned to his country at the request of former president fidel valdez ramos to lead the university of the philippines as its president .
javier earned his ph.d. in plant breeding and genetics from cornell university , his master 's degree from the university of illinois and bachelor 's degree from the university of the philippines - college of agriculture -lrb- now up los banos -rrb- .
