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Council (NMYC) in “transitioning” to the bigger administrative

entity, the Technical Education and Skills Development Author-
ity (TESDA), in the mid-1990s.

As Dean (1988-92 and 1995-99) of the UP SOLAIR, he

transformed the School into one of the biggest graduate schools
of the University, with enrolment tripling from the average of

70 or so in the 1980s to over 200 in the 1990s. The rise in
enrolment was due to a great extent to his tireless efforts to
forge productive linkages between SOLAIR and the International

Labor Office (ILO), trade unions, Employers Confederation of
the Philippines (ECOP), Personnel Management Association of

the Philippines, NMYC/TESDA and the different agencies under
DOLE. ECOP even asked him to serve as consultant to a series
of conferences and symposia in the 1990s. He also successfully

campaigned for assistance from Congress for the rebuilding and
modernization of the SOLAIR complex. Dr. Ofreneo served as

Vice Chairman of the UP Management Education Council in the
1990s.

He has written extensively on the labor, industrial

relations, agrarian and green jobs issues in the Philippines and
in the Asia-Pacific. He sits in the board of several international

journals (Australia, UK and Malaysia) dealing with labor issues
in the Asia-Pacific. His latest books are Asia-Pacific: Advancing
Decent Work Amidst Deepening Inequalities, released in January

2013 by the ITUC Asia Pacific based in Singapore, and Green

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