Consuelo Ynares-Santiago

Consuelo Santiago is a retired Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court. She is currently an independent director of Anchor Insurance Brokerage Corp., a leading insurance brokerage company based in New York, USA; SMC Global Power Holdings Inc., one of the country’s leading power companies and the power generation unit of San Miguel Corporation; South Luzon Tollway Corporation; and Top Frontier Investment Holdings Inc.

She is the Chairperson of the Advisory Council of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution under the Department of Justice. She earned her law degree at the University of the Philippines. After being admitted to the bar, she started her career as a Legal Officer of the Securities and Exchange Commission. After five years of legal practice, she decided to enter the Judiciary and spent 36 years of her career as Municipal Judge, Metropolitan Trial Court judge, Regional Trial Court judge, and Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals, before becoming an Associate Justice of the highest court of the country, the Supreme Court.

During this time, she became the Chairperson of the Supreme Court’s 3rd Division and also joined various committees in the same capacity, among them: the Justice on Wheels Program, the Foreign Travel Committee, and the House of Representative Electoral Tribunal. She was also a member of the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, as well as a consultant of the Judicial and Bar Council. She was a bar examiner of Labor Law and Social Legislation during the 1996 Bar Examination, and of Taxation Law in the 1998 Bar Examination.