last updated: 5 June 2001

Maglambayan, Victor Banaag

Dr. Maglambayan is an experienced mining geologist who is now working in the academe. He finished BS Geology (cum laude) in the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1980. He worked briefly as instructor, then spent the next 11 years in various positions in three mining companies. He worked briefly as junior geologist for Vulcan Mining Corp. and then moved to its sister company, Acoje Mining Co. where he spent 7 years. There, he rose from junior geologist to division manager of exploration, mine planning and development. In 1998, he transferred to Philex Mining Corp. as senior geologist.

He went back to the university for graduate studies as Monbusho scholar. He finished MS Geology and Ph. D. in Geology in Akita University, Japan. He is currently the OIC Director of the National Institute of Geological Sciences in the University of the Philippines. He is an an active member of the Geological Society of the Philippines and the PHILAJAMES (Philippine Association of Japanese Ministry of Education Scholars). He also serves in concurrent capacity as affiliate professor of the UP Open University and sits as Review Committee member of the Environmental Impact Statement Division of the Environmental Management Bureau.

Field of study: economic, structural, and environmental geology