{"id":798,"date":"2025-08-11T08:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/?page_id=798"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:21:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:21:44","slug":"lotus-postrado","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/speakers\/lotus-postrado\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Postrado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Lotus Postrado is the first Filipina Country Director of the British\u00a0Council in the Philippines, celebrated for her pioneering\u00a0educational contributions. She spearheaded the UK-Philippine\u00a0Transnational Education Program, establishing groundbreaking\u00a0collaborations between UK universities and Philippine institutions.\u00a0 This led to 16 new dual postgraduate degrees and set a new\u00a0benchmark in the country\u2019s higher education sector. Lotus has\u00a0driven key programs at the Department of Education as part of the Program Development and Evaluation Division and at the\u00a0Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO) in Bangkok, where she worked as a Programme Officer. She holds an MA in Human\u00a0Resource Development from the University of Newcastle, Australia, an MA in Special Education, and a BA in Sociology from the University of the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country Director<br \/>\nBritish Council <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":799,"parent":90,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-798","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/798\/revisions\/1024"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arangkadaphilippines.com\/forum2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}