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Outstanding Professional Award 2014
Outstanding Professional Award 2014

The Futuristics Society was one of the few Philippine ramos took futurism as his administration’s policy and
non-government organizations to advocate the inclusion of the governance tool. But the succeeding short-lived Estrada regime
environmental rehabilitation and demographic/food security threw it out of the window.
issues in 1983. Santos was appointed one of the editors of the
Philippine position paper on environment issues for the rio The Futuristics Society was forced into hiatus in 1997
Conference in 1992. when the asian financial crisis hit and Santos, as its president,
decided to shelve its conferences, fora and lectures because
He hosted radio and TV programs on strategic planning the corporate members chose to suspend their subscriptions
for better future quality of lives of the Filipinos after he quit his to the Society. It resumed its strategic planning conferences
foreign correspondence job and his associate publisher’s job and lectures in 2007 as the Center for Philippine Futuristics
in the Bangkok Times group of publications in 1988. He was Studies and Management with a grant from Coca-Cola Export
one of the consultants of President Fidel V. ramos in the 1992 Corporation which ended in 2012.
presidential campaign, specifically for geopolitical analyses.

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