Biography

Commissioner Nasser A. Marohomsalic was born on July 21, 1955 at Rumayas, Lumba-a-Bayabao, Lanao del Sur. He finished his law degree in 1981 at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, and passed the Bar the same year.  He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977 at the Far Eastern University in Manila.  An honorary alumnus of the Mindanao State University, he spent two years of liberal arts education at the University in Marawi City.

He is presently the Acting National Secretary of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines.  He is the Vice President of Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID).

In 1988, President Corazon C. Aquino appointed him as one of the Commissioners of the Regional Consultative Commission for Muslim Mindanao, a deliberative and constitutional body which assisted Congress in the framing of the 1989 Organic Act of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Republic Act No. 6734).

On November 27, 1994, President Fidel V. Ramos appointed him as Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights with a term of seven years.

Under a research project funded by the Mindanao State University and the Ramos Peace and Development Foundation, Commissioner Marohomsalic wrote a book entitled, Aristocrats of the Malay Race: A History of the Bangsa Moro in the Philippines in 2001. A collection of his speeches as Commissioner of Human Rights was published in 1999 by the Institute of Foreign Service under the title, Towards Peace, Autonomy and Human Rights.

He is happily married to to Hadja Sittie Omensalam Benito Adap.