Ex-VP Robredo returns home from int’l engagements
After months of speaking engagements in the United States and Europe, former vice president Leni Robredo returned to the Philippines over the weekend.
The former official posted about her homecoming on Facebook on Sunday, Nov. 26.
“Great to be home,” she wrote, adding that, “This will be an extra busy week for me.”
Robredo had been staying in Boston, Massachusetts since October after being named one of the Hauser Leaders of the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership, where she will share her leadership experiences as the country’s 14th vice president.
On Facebook, she shared about taking a 30-hour flight, including an eight-hour layover, from Boston to Manila, where she was just in time to attend the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law Grand Alumni Association.
Although she was not a graduate of UP Law School, Robredo said she was “honored to have been invited to keynote the event.”
“Always a joy to be with the community. Congratulations to this year’s Golden and Silver Jubilarians - Batch ‘72 and Batch ’97,” she said.
Robredo finished her law degree from the University of Nueva Caceres in Naga City in 1992, after completing her economics degree from UP Diliman in 1986.
She passed the bar in 1997.
The UP College of Law Grand Alumni Association gathering took place Saturday night at the UP Bahay ng Alumni, according to a Facebook post of former Comelec Commissioner Rowena Guanzon.
Robredo, in fact, almost didn’t make it to the trip since she lost her passport on Monday evening and needed to go back to New York, where youngest daughter Jillian is staying, on Tuesday to look for it.
“My persistence paid off at the very last hour. Thank you to 3 unexpected guardian angels who helped me find it,” she wrote.
Aside from being a Hauser Leader, Robredo was also one of the speakers of the Obama Foundation’s Democracy Forum where she talked about the state of disinformation in the Philippines.
She was also in Switzerland for a speaking engagement with Asia Society for The State of Asia Conference in Zurich.
The former vice president had been busy attending to invitations from different international organizations and the academe after losing the 2022 presidential elections and launching her Angat Buhay NGO.