Ace Durano


Joseph Felix Mari "Ace" Hotchkiss Durano was one of the youngest to be elected representative to the 11th congress. He was an Assistant Majority Floor Leader and Vice Chairman of the Committee on Trade and Industry during that time.

Biography

Born to Elizabeth Hotchkiss-Durano and Ramon Duterte Durano III, son of Manong Amon Durano, a political figure in the Philippines, "Ace," as he is fondly called by his family and his constituents in the Fifth District of Cebu, took his high school and college education in America after finishing elementary education in Cebu City. He finished his Bachelor of Arts in Asia at the University of Redlands, California. When he came back to the Philippines, he took up law studies at Ateneo de Manila University and graduated in 1997. He became a member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines in 1998. While in law school, he was a research assistant of the Free Legal Assistance Group in Cebu City and at the Regional Trial Court Branch XXV in Davao City. He also finished his Masters in Business Administration- Regis in 2012 from the Ateneo Graduate School of Business, Rockwell, Makati City, Philippines.
In the 12th Congress, he was the Chairman of the Committee on Public Order and Security and Vice Chairman of the Committees on DPWH and on Dangerous Drugs.
Congressman Durano is an honorary member of Class '79 of the Philippine Military Academy. He is also a Lieutenant Colonel of the Philippine Air Force.
As Representative of the Fifth District of Cebu, he is credited for the following;
On May 2, 2008, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appointed Tourism Secretary Joseph "Ace" Durano, acting general manager of the Philippine Tourism Authority, after Robert Dean Barbers' term expired.