23 Facts About Teddy Baguilat

Teddy Baguilat is the president of the Global Consortium for Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas, an advisory body to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

Teddy Baguilat is the vice president for internal affairs of the Liberal Party.

At the age of 13, Teddy Baguilat returned to Kiangan where he studied at the Saint Joseph School Kiangan for his secondary education.

Teddy Baguilat then pursued his Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication, Major in Journalism at the University of the Philippines Diliman and became an active student leader on campus.

From 1987 to 1991, Teddy Baguilat worked at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources as an executive assistant to an undersecretary.

Teddy Baguilat worked as a production assistant for GMA Channel 7, as a reporter for the People's News Service, and as an executive assistant for the Philippine Ecological Network.

In 1992, Teddy Baguilat ran for the municipal council of Kiangan.

From 1995 to 2001, Teddy Baguilat served as mayor of Kiangan.

In 1996, Baguilat received the Dangal ng Bayan Award and recognition as one of the Ten Most Outstanding Civil Servants of the Philippines awarded by then-president Fidel V Ramos.

Teddy Baguilat ran for the governorship of Ifugao in the 2001 election and won under the banner of the Liberal Party.

Teddy Baguilat narrowly lost in a re-election bid in the 2004 election.

Teddy Baguilat afterwards served as the president of the Save the Ifugao Rice Terraces Movement, a non-government organization that seeks to promote and protect the cultural treasures of Ifugao and its indigenous people.

Teddy Baguilat ran again in the 2007 election and was elected anew as Ifugao's governor.

Teddy Baguilat won in the 2010 election as the representative of the lone district of Ifugao.

Teddy Baguilat ran for speakership of the 17th Congress but lost to Pantaleon Alvarez.

Teddy Baguilat was then chosen as the leader of the minority bloc via tradition of voting on the speakership.

Teddy Baguilat was the first person from an indigenous community to be elected for the position.

Teddy Baguilat sought to prioritize the investigation of alleged extrajudicial killings committed by state forces.

Teddy Baguilat is the principal author of the Philippine Indigenous and Community Conserved Area Bill.

Teddy Baguilat has filed and supported several bills that focus on indigenous rights, such as the Cordillera Organic Law, the Chico River Basin Bill, the Indigenous Education Bill, and the Indigenous Barangay Bill.

Teddy Baguilat again ran for governor of Ifugao province in the 2019 election, but lost to Banaue mayor Jerry Dalipog.

On October 8,2021, Teddy Baguilat filed his candidacy for senator in the 2022 senatorial election running under Vice President Leni Robredo's senatorial ticket.

Teddy Baguilat lost after placing 28th in the final results and garnering over 4.2 million votes.