Maria Cristina Damasco-Padolina (born 1946 in Ilocos Sur) is the current and seventh President and Chief Academic Officer of Centro Escolar University in Manila, Philippines. Ilocos Sur is a province of the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon. Centro Escolar University ( ( Filipino: Pamantasang Centro Escolar) is a private University in the Philippines. The City of Manila Dr. Padolina is a former commissioner at the Commission on Higher Education and also a professor emeritus at the Institute of Chemistry, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna. The University of the Philippines (or Unibersidad ng Pilipinas in Filipino and commonly abbreviated as U Los Baños is a 1st class urban municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines. She is also the former chancellor of the UP Open University from March 1995 to February 2001. The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU headquartered at Los Baños Laguna, was established on February 23, 1995 as the fifth She was educated in Chemical Engineering at the University of the Philippines and received her M. S. in Chemistry in 1967 at the Ateneo de Manila University. The Ateneo de Manila University (also called " Ateneo de Manila " or simply "the Ateneo " is a private University run She obtained her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. She is also the recipient of the 1999 Most Distinguished Alumna Award given by the UP Alumni Engineers. Dr. Padolina is a member of the Advisory Group of the National Health Promotion Committee, and was on the executive board of the Asian Association of Open Universities from 1998 to 2001. She was appointed as the University's President and Chief Academic Officer on September 2006, replacing the retiring Dr. Rosita L. Navarro. Rosita Lozano-Navarro was the sixth President and Chief Academic Officer of Centro Escolar University (CEU in Manila, Philippines from 2001 to 2006 She will lead the university's centennial in 2007.