Eric Zerrudo

Professor Eric Babar Zerrudo, expert on cultural heritage and museum development. Vigan city's consultant on Heritage Conservation

... from the speech of introduction by Vigan City Mayor Eva Marie S. Medina

• Raised and schooled to excel from grade school of Centro Escolar University as Valedictorian,
• San Beda College High School as Salutatorian,
• a Baccalaureate of the Arts in Economics Magna cum Laude at De La Salle University,
• with a candidacy of Master in Arts at the University of the Philippines,
• Obtained in 2001 a Master of Cultural Heritage with high distinction from Deakin University in Australia;
  
• visiting researcher as well as language grants in Japan and Germany;
  
• cultural grants to Korea, China, Australia, Japan and the United Staes of America;
  
• the cultural missions he undertook; conferences, seminars, workshops he attended; various international visits, books and papers he authored are too numerous to mention.
  
• Suffice it to say that all of these activities, together with the various professional positions he held such as
  
• Director for Administration of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila,
  
• Vice President of the GSIS Physical resource Office Administration Group and
  
• Director for Administration of the UST Center for the Conservation of Cultural Property and the Environment in the Tropics,
  
• has honed his skills in cultural heritage, museum development, property management and corporate affairs, that we have been fortunate to have him as
  
• hands-on consultant and trainer in our cultural mapping project.