Duterte’s team Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has named a Cabinet made up of close friends, former classmates, leftists and academics. His choices of economic managers have won praise, and Mr Duterte describes them all as “men of integrity and honesty”. Mr Carlos Dominguez, Finance Mr Alfonso Cusi, Energy Mr Benjamin Diokno, Budget He was former president Corazon A technocrat, he headed the Manila An economist, he was budget Aquino’s agriculture minister. He used International Airport Authority, minister under former president to be chief executive of ag carrier Philippine Ports Authority, and Civil Joseph Estrada. Philippine Airlines. A childhood friend Aviation Authority of the Philippines of Mr Duterte’s, he owns one of Davao under former president Gloria city’s biggest hotels. Arroyo. Mr Arthur Tugade, Mr Deln Lorenzana, Defence Ms Leonor Briones, Education Transportation and A retired major-general, he led the She was national treasurer under Communication Army Special Operations unit. He former president Joseph Estrada. A classmate of Mr Duterte’s in law served as military attache to She is a professor emeritus at school, Mr Tugade was head of Clark Washington, and was appointed by state-run University of the Development Corp. former president Gloria Arroyo to Philippines (UP). represent Filipino veterans pressing for compensation from the US. Mr Silvestre Bello, Labour Ms Judy Taguiwalo, Mr Mark Villar, Public Works He was justice minister under Social Welfare and Highways former presidents Corazon Aquino A political prisoner under the He is a congressman. His family and Fidel Ramos. Marcos regime, she is a women’s owns the Philippines’ biggest mass rights advocate and currently a UP housing developer. professor. She was in a list submitted by Mr Duterte’s communist allies. Mr Rafael Mariano, Mr Ernesto Pernia, Mr Perfecto Yasay, Foreign Agrarian Reform Economic Planning The former head of the Securities Mr Mariano is a nominee of the A graduate of the University of and Exchange Commission, his National Democratic Front, a California, Berkeley, he is a professor testimony on a massive stock left-wing group of communist cadres. emeritus at the UP School of scandal helped build a case that led He is the head of a militant farmers’ Economics. He had been lead to the impeachment of former group that has been pressing for an economist at the Asian president Joseph Estrada. overhaul of the country’s agrarian Development Bank. reform programme. Photos: EPA, AFP, SUPPLIED STRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS.