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The HonourableSherwin Gatchalian
Sherwin GatchalianGatchalian in 2018
Senator of the Philippines
Incumbent
Assumed office
June 30, 2016
Chair of the Philippine Senate
Energy Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office
July 25, 2016
Preceded bySergio Osmeña III
Chair of the Philippine Senate
Economic Affairs Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office
July 25, 2016
Preceded byJV Ejercito
Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Valenzuela's First District
In office
June 30, 2013 – June 30, 2016
Preceded byRex Gatchalian
Succeeded byWes Gatchalian
In office
June 30, 2001 – June 30, 2004
Preceded byPost created
Lone district
Succeeded byJose Emmanuel Carlos
Mayor of Valenzuela
In office
June 30, 2004 – June 30, 2013
Preceded byJose Emmanuel Carlos
Succeeded byRex Gatchalian
Personal details
BornSherwin Ting Gatchalian
(1974-04-06) April 6, 1974 (age 50)
Manila, Philippines
Political partyNationalist People's Coalition
Other political
affiliations		United Nationalist Alliance (2013)
Alma materBoston University
OccupationPolitician
In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Ting and the surname or paternal family name is Gatchalian.

Sherwin Ting Gatchalian (Template:IPA-tl) is a Filipino politician and businessman. He was elected to the Philippine Senate in 2016. He was the representative of Valenzuela's first district from 2001 to 2004 and from 2013 to 2016; he also served as the city's mayor for three consecutive terms from 2004 to 2013.

Early life and education

Gatchalian was born on April 6, 1974, the eldest of four children of Chinese-Filipino businessman William Tiu Gatchalian and Dee Hua Ting. His siblings include Rexlon, Weslie and Kenneth. Gatchalian made public his high regard for his father as a model for hard work and perseverance. His family has business interests in the plastic manufacturer Wellex Group and in Waterfront Hotels and Casinos.

He graduated with a degree in Finance and Operations Management in Boston University in Massachusetts, USA in 1995.

Political career

Gatchalian is the first generation of politicians from his family. His other relatives serving in government include brother Rexlon, who was the representative for the first district of Valenzuela and later the city's mayor, and brother Weslie, who also held the same Lower House office.

Gatchalian has been a member of the Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC) since joining politics in 2001. From March to May 2013, he went on a political hiatus from NPC when he became the deputy campaign manager for United Nationalist Alliance.

House of Representatives (2001-2004)

Gatchalian was first elected to the House of Representatives of the Philippines in 2001, at the time when Valenzuela's congressional representation was divided into two separate districts. He defeated the second district representative-elect Magtanggol Gunigundo's father in the race.

Mayor of Valenzuela (2004-2013)

Gatchalian, during the awarding ceremony of TOYM 2011 in the Malacañang Palace.

After then incumbent Valenzuela mayor Bobbit Carlos' term expiration in 2004, Gatchalian ran and won the mayoralty position for the first time, defeating Carlos' wife, Margarita.

Gatchalian formulated the "WIN ang Edukasyon Program" (Education Wins Program) for public schools to address immediate needs of Valenzuela's schoolchildren. This included feeding programs, the purchase of additional textbooks, and construction of more classrooms. The program also aimed to improve the level of reading proficiency of all public school children in the city.

In 2009, Gatchalian started the "Disiplina Village" (Discipline Village) in Barangay Ugong, a housing project for the relocation of families displaced by the Northrail Project of the Philippine National Railways and those victimized by Typhoon Ondoy. The project initially benefited some 1,800 from the city. Gatchalian opened the second phase of the housing project in 2012.

House of Representatives (2013-2016)

Gatchalian initially considered running for the Senate in the 2013 midterm election as part of then incumbent vice-president Jejomar Binay's United Nationalist Alliance senatorial slate. He later dropped his bid after the release of Pulse Asia's September 2012 survey placing him in the 26th-35th mark among people's choice for the Senate. He instead ran for a House of Representative post for Valenzuela's first district, the post he first held in 2001.

Gatchalian returned to the Lower House in 2013, as allowed by the 1987 Constitution's prescription on term limitations for local posts. He replaced his younger brother, Rex, who was the incumbent representative at the time.

Some of his proposed bills during this 2013 term include acts regulating parking fees in malls and commercial areas, including ROTC among the prerequisites for tertiary level graduation, increasing the budget for NAIA to transform its global image, abolishing the Road Board (a government agency that handled motor vehicle users' tax and road users' tax), protecting passengers against abusive and itinerant taxi drivers, for the declaration of candidates seeking to profit from election polls as nuisance candidates, as well as a proposed bill requiring proofs of parking space to car purchasers as a means to lessen traffic congestion.

Gatchalian is one of the main advocates of free higher education in the Philippines, advocating for the fully subsidized tuition and other scholastic needs of qualified students with good academic and moral standing. He also supports the implementation K–12 education in the Philippines as an investment for the future of younger generations. He filed in 2015 the original version of the bill that would radically expand access to college education for millions of Filipinos: House Bill No. 5905, more commonly known as the Free Higher Education Act.

Senate (2016-present)

On June 2015, in an event in Quezon province, Gatchalian announced his bid for a Senate seat in the 2016 general election. On October 2015, in a political assembly at Club Filipino, senator and presidential candidate Grace Poe announced her senatorial slate under the coalition Partido Galing at Puso; the slate included Gatchalian.

As a young senator of the 17th Congress, Gatchalian advocated youth-driven education advocacies that have become the hallmark of his distinguished eighteen-year career in public service. First elected as Valenzuela City congressman in 2001, he was elected mayor of Valenzuela City in 2004. During his nine years as chief executive, he set in motion a holistic education program—such as the strong support to quality public schools including an investment in a world-class Valenzuela City School of Mathematics and Science; accessibility to college education; school-based feeding program that mobilized communities; empowerment of parents through the Nanay-Teacher Program; and continuous mastery of skills to strengthen competencies of teachers, among others. These programs transformed Valenzuela City’s education system into one of the nation’s best. Returning to Congress in 2013, he filed in 2015 the original version of the bill that would radically expand access to college education for millions of Filipinos: House Bill No. 5905, more commonly known as the Free Higher Education Act. The measure, which eventually becomes Republic Act No. 10931 when it was signed into law by President Rodrigo Duterte last August 2017, set the stage for millions of young Filipinos to attain a free college education in state and local universities and colleges nationwide. Gatchalian continues to fight for a better and more equitable Philippine education system.

During his award-winning tenure as mayor, and later congressman of Valenzuela City, Gatchalian helped spark an economic renaissance in the city by enacting policies that fostered robust competition, encouraged investments, and made doing business in the city easier. Now, as Chairman of both the Senate Committees on Energy and Economic Affairs, respectively, he works with and runs the two committees with one goal in mind—to protect and empower the Filipino consumers. He has steered both committees toward the passage of several key measures aimed at fostering the same kind of competitive, investor-friendly, and red tape-free environment in the energy sector, and in the Philippine economy in general. Working at a considerable pace over the past two and a half years, he has passed pro-consumer legislations that have been signed into law by President Duterte.

Gatchalian is the chair of the Senate committees on Economic Affairs and Energy during the 17th Congress. Among the laws he has authored are the Electric Cooperatives Emergency and Resiliency Fund Act, the Energy Virtual One Stop Shop Act, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act and the Mobile Number Portability Act.

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References

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Political offices
Preceded byBobbit Carlos Mayor of Valenzuela
2004–2013 		Succeeded byRex Gatchalian
House of Representatives of the Philippines
Preceded byRex Gatchalian Representative of the First District of Valenzuela
2013–2016 		Succeeded byWes Gatchalian
Preceded byPost created Representative of the First District of Valenzuela
2001–2004 		Succeeded byBobbit Carlos
16th ← Philippines Senators of the 17th Congress of the Philippines (2016–2019) → 18th
Senate President
Senior Senators (2013–2019)Junior Senators (2016–2022)
Term ended June 30, 2019Term ended June 30, 2022
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