Vice President for Social Development
The revival of the Office of the Vice President for Social Development is geared toward achieving greater cohesion in moving forward with the University’s strategic thrusts of nation-building and environment-and-development. The Office is tasked to lead in strengthening, aligning and consolidating existing and future efforts of students, faculty and other members of the Ateneo community in responding to social, political, environmental and overall national and local development concerns. It will strive to achieve greater impact of such efforts while attaining the sustainability of various existing University offices involved in the undertakings. These offices are the Ateneo Center for Educational Development (ACED), Gawad Kalinga-Ateneo Coordinating Office, and the Pathways to Higher Education Program.
The incumbent Vice President for Social Development is Atty. Jaime Hofileña. He began practicing law in April of 1990, eventually becoming a Senior Partner of the Poblador Bautista & Reyes Law Offices. He is a Trustee and the Corporate Secretary of the microfinance institution Ahon sa Hirap Inc. and was a researcher and project officer at the University’s Center for Social Policy and Public Affairs, a researcher for the Negotiating Panel for Peace of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines in 1986, a member of the staff of then-Commissioner Joaquin G Bernas, SJ of the Constitutional Commission of 1986, and a faculty member of the Filipino Department of the Ateneo High School from 1982 to 1984. He is currently Class Representative of his College 1982 class in the Ateneo Alumni Association.
Atty. Hofileña obtained degrees of Bachelor of Laws (class Salutatorian) from the College of Law of the University of the Philippines in 1989 and Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (magna cum laude and class Valedictorian) from the then-College of Arts and Science of the Ateneo de Manila in 1982.
Contact Information
Atty. Jaime Hofileña
Vice President for Social Development
Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila University
Katipunan Road, Loyola Hts., Q.C.
Tel No. : 4266001 loc. 4051, 4054, 4099
