Biography

ATTY. JOSE IRIBANI LORENA is a newly-appointed member of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission. He is a former OPAPP Undersecretary for Bangsamoro Projects and currently serving as one of the agency’s senior consultants. He is a convenor of the Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID).

He is a former Attorney General of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and a member of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) peace panel who negotiated the natural resources part of the 1996 Final Peace Agreement and is now consultant at the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP).

He is a  planner-developer, political activist, liberal, moderate and open to new dynamics. He is also a public servant who served the government in various capacities as Chief Local Government Officer and Head, Local Government Supervision, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Regional Officer  of the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLRB).

He have written articles on various topics such as Minority Rights, Ancestral Domain, Terrorism and  Local Governance, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Rehabilitation.

• a planner-developer, political activist, liberal, moderate and open to new dynamics.            
• participated in more than five years of the GRP-OIC-MNLF peace negotiations as Chairman of the technical panel (MNLF) of  Support Committee 3, the Economics, Finance and Mine and Minerals Committee
• a public servant- served the government in various capacities as Chief Local Government Officer and Head, LOcal Government Supervision, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Regional Officer  of the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLRB), Secretary of Labor  and Attorney General  of the Autonomous Region in Muslim MIndanao (ARMM)                                                   
• Advocate of  youth causes beginning when he w Regional Operations Officer (ROO) of the  Kabataang Barangay (KB)