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Ambassador Daniel Ramos Espiritu is
a career diplomat with more than
twenty years of experience in the
Philippine Foreign Service. He has
been the Philippine Ambassador to
Pakistan with concurrent
jurisdiction over the Islamic
Republic of Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan
and Tajikistan since 2015.
He
started as Special Assistant to the
Secretary of Foreign Affairs and
Administrative Officer of the Office
of the Secretary from 1995 to 1998.
Then he was assigned
as Third Secretary and Vice Consul,
then Second Secretary and Consul, at
the Philippine Embassy in Seoul,
Republic of Korea from 1998 to 2004.
Upon
recall to the Home Office in 2004,
he was appointed Special Assistant
to the Undersecretary for
International Economic Relations, in
charge of the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) and the
Counter-Terrorism Task Force.
From
2006 to 2007, he was appointed
Director of the China and North Asia
Division, Office of Asian and
Pacific Affairs.
On 24 November 2007,
he was assigned to Los Angeles,
California, U.S.A., as Deputy Consul
General, a position he held until
November 24, 2013.
Before coming to Islamabad, he was
appointed as Director of the
Political Security Division of the
DFA Office of ASEAN Affairs where he
served from February 3, 2014 to
August 25, 2015, in charge of ASEAN
Political Security Community, East
Asia Summit, ASEAN Regional Forum,
ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting,
Extended ASEAN Maritime Forum,
ASEAN-China Senior Officials
Consultations, Senior Officials
Meetings and Joint Working Group
Meetings on the Implementation of
the Code of Conduct of the Parties
in the South China Sea.
He was appointed as
Ambassador to Pakistan on 04 May
2015 and presented his credentials
to Pakistani President Mamnoon
Hussain on November 3, 2015 at the
Aiwan-e-Sadr Presidential Palace in
Islamabad. He presented his
credentials to Tajikistan President
Rahmon Ehmomali in Dushanbe on 10
December 2015, Afghan President
Ashraf Ghani in Kabul on 01 February
2016 and Kyrgyz Republic President
Almazbek Atambayev in Bishkek on 29
March 2016.
Ambassador Espiritu graduated from
the University of the Philippines
in 1998 with a Masters in
International Studies.
Ambassador Espiritu is married to
Ms. Carryn Roberts-Sarsuelo
Espiritu.
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