00:00President Marcos selects COA Chair Gamaliel Assis-Cordoba as next Supreme Court Associate Justice.
00:09President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has appointed Commission on Audit Chair Gamaliel Assis-Cordoba as the 196th Associate Justice of
00:21the Supreme Court.
00:22He will be succeeding Associate Justice Ami Lazaro Javier, who retires on November 16.
00:30Cordoba joins the High Tribunal after more than two decades of public service, most recently as Chairperson of COA, the
00:38country's independent constitutional body for the State Audit.
00:43At COA, he led a comprehensive fraud audit of flood control projects, submitting at least 50 fraud audit reports to
00:53the Office of the Ombudsman and the Independent Commission for Infrastructure.
00:58He also institutionalized GPS-based geotagging of all government infrastructure projects nationwide to ensure proper verification of project status.
01:12Internationally, he served as external auditor of the International Labor Organization and the World Trade Organization and as Chair of
01:22the ASEAN Supreme Court or rather Supreme Audit Institutions for 2024 and 2025.
01:28Before COA, CORDOBA was the longest-serving commissioner of the National Telecommunications Commission from 2009 to 2022 under four administrations.
01:44He opened the industry to a third major telecommunications player, ending a decades-old dual poly, approved Starlink's entry in
01:58a record 30 minutes to bring satellite internet to isolated communities, and cracked down on tax comms and online child
02:08sexual abuse material.
02:10He received the Gawad got Andres Bonifacio Award, the City of Manila's highest honor in June this year.
02:22A lawyer and economist, CORDOBA earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1992 and Juris Doctor in 1996 from
02:32the Ateneo de Manila University and passed the bar in 1997 before entering government in 2001.
02:40He practiced law at Sigurina Montesilio and Oshako and worked as a tax lawyer at CICIP, Gores, Vilayo and Company.
