PRESIDENTS of The PH
PRESIDENTS of The PH
PRESIDENTS of The PH
14. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (January 20, 2001 – June 30, 2010)
President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2004. She served as vice president under
President Estrada and became president when he was forced to step down for malfeasance,
through the People’s Power II revolution. PGMA has confronted some of the same obstacles as
did her father, President Diosdado Macapagal, when he tried to clean up corruption in
government
• second female president of the country
• first and only female vice-president of the Philippines so far
• first president to take oath outside Luzon
• former Economics professor at the Ateneo de Manila University, where current president
Benigno Aquino III was one of her students
• ex-classmate of former U.S. President Bill Clinton at Georgetown University’s Walsh
School of Foreign Service, where she maintained Dean’s list status
• oversaw higher economic growth than the past three presidents before her
• peso became the best-performing currency of the year in Asia in 2007
• eVAT Law was implemented under her term
• currently on the 200-peso bill