27 Facts About Nicanor Perlas

Nicanor Perlas serves at present as the Chairman of the board of directors and trustees of LifeBank, a rural bank and microfinancial institution in the Philippines.

Nicanor Perlas subsequently become a technical adviser to the Presidential Commission on the Philippine Nuclear Power Plant, Office of the President of the Philippines, where he was instrumental in stopping the operation of the fully constructed and operational Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, a $2.2 billion project plagued with design, construction, location, and corruption problems.

Shortly thereafter, Nicanor Perlas was appointed member of the national technical panel overseeing the regulation of pesticide use in Philippine agriculture.

In parallel with these efforts, Nicanor Perlas pioneered the introduction of large scale commercial organic and biodynamic agriculture in many provinces in the Philippines.

Nicanor Perlas was the chief negotiator for a network of national networks, which involved 5000 organizations, that successfully stopped the agenda of radical and one sided liberalization in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation or APEC.

Nicanor Perlas successfully introduced strong sustainable development language in the Leaders and Ministerial Declarations in APEC, and constrained the Individual Action Plan of the Philippines to abide by sustainable development principles.

Nicanor Perlas is the co-founder, president and executive director of the Center for Alternative Development Initiatives or CADI, in Metro Manila and Iloilo City, where he guides research and policy work and develops initiatives on globalization, threefolding and their impacts on civil society, cultural power and sustainable development.

Nicanor Perlas is the co-founder and spokesperson of Karangalan which hosted a series of national conferences highlighting important global and national innovations and achievements by Filipinos in many disciplines and fields.

Nicanor Perlas was the chief facilitator and co-founder of the ABS-CBN "Forum on the Filipino Future", held on December 16,2004.

Nicanor Perlas was Chairman, Adviser on Strategy and Integral Sustainable Development, and Member, Board of Directors, LifeBank ARB, and Board of Trustees of LifeBank MFI, both of which help close to more than 400,000 economically poor families through microfinance and other lending products offerings.

Nicanor Perlas has been chairman of several national civil society networks including the Green Forum Philippines, the Philippine Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, and the Civil Society Counterpart Council for Sustainable Development.

Nicanor Perlas was one of the official civil society delegates from the Philippines at the Earth Summit in Rio.

Nicanor Perlas was the technical writer of SIAD: Framework for the Localization of Philippine Agenda 21, which is used by a number of local governments and civil society organizations to advance sustainable integrated area development in towns.

Nicanor Perlas has been the resource person and keynote speaker in over 70 global conferences and events in over 20 countries, and over 120 national conferences on a range of topics including culture and societal transformation, integral sustainable development, globalization, technology, corporate social responsibility, science and spirituality, social threefolding, strategic microfinance, direct democracy and others.

Nicanor Perlas has provided consultancy work for several UN agencies, the Philippine Senate, donor agencies and foundations, as well as many other global and national civil society organizations and networks and businesses striving for ecological and social responsibility.

Nicanor Perlas is a member of the Mikhail Gorbachev's Commission on Globalization.

Nicanor Perlas has conducted hundreds of training sessions in the Philippines and abroad on a wide range of topics convergent with his writings.

Nicanor Perlas calls this new framework the Lemniscate Process, which integrates the substance of more than two dozen disciplines and fields, all geared towards unlocking human creativity, enthusiasm and commitment for creating a better world.

Nicanor Perlas is part of the faculty at the graduate program of the Southeast Asian Interdisciplinary Development Institute.

Nicanor Perlas was a professor at the accredited Doctoral program on Applied Cosmic Anthropology of the Asian Social Institute, where he gave in depth theoretical and practical elaborations of the Lemniscate Process.

Nicanor Perlas is a board member and a resource person for training programs of the Gamot Cogon Institute or GCI, based in Iloilo, Philippines.

Nicanor Perlas's book, Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural Power, and Threefolding, has been translated in 9 languages.

On June 17,2009, Nicanor Perlas announced his intentions to become one of the candidates for the presidential election in 2010.

Nicanor Perlas announced this during a press conference at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani in Quezon City.

Nicanor Perlas was a Philippine presidential aspirant for the 2010 presidential elections but lost to Liberal Party's presidential candidate Benigno S Aquino III.

Nicanor Perlas's awards include the William F Masterson award, the top award for outstanding alumni of Xavier University for his national and global contributions to sustainable agriculture.

Nicanor Perlas received highest honors and was valedictorian of his graduating class in the College of Agriculture at Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, major in Agronomy and minor in Agricultural Economics.