The Consul General
Gilberto G.B. Asuque
May 2018 to June 2019
Consul General Asuque is a senior diplomat in the Philippine Foreign Service having begun his appointment in the Department of Foreign Affairs in December 1986. He started his tour-of-duty in Calgary on 1 May 2018 and ended it on 30 June 2019.
Prior to his assignment to Calgary, Consul General Asuque was the Deputy Chief of Mission and Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and Related Inter-Governmental Organizations, at the Philippine Embassy in London, from 14 March 2016 to 30 April 2018. He also served as Deputy Chief of Mission of the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo from 22 February to 13 March 2016.
He was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the Philippines to the Republic of Lebanon from 2009 to 2011. Prior to his ambassadorial post, Mr. Asuque served as Charge d’ Affaires, a.i. and Consul General of the Philippine Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel from 2006 to 2009.
His other assignments in the Philippine Foreign Service include as Assistant Secretary for Ocean Concerns, Assistant Secretary for Public Information and Spokesman of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Minister Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative to the IMO, and Vice Consul in Australia.
Consul General Asuque holds a Master of Laws in International Maritime Law (Ll.M.) at the International Maritime Law Institute of the IMO, Master of Arts in Maritime Policy (M.A.M.P.) at the Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich, London; Bachelor of Laws (Ll.B.), College of Law, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City; and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, (B.S.B.A.) Major in Marketing, University of the East, Manila.
Atty. Asuque is a member in good standing of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines. He is also a Board Member of the Maritime Law Association of the Philippines. END.
