LOREN LEGARDA
- Senator Loren B. Legarda
- Senate Office:
- Rm. 209 2nd Flr., GSIS Bldg., Financial Center, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City
- Trunk Lines: (632) 552-6601 to 70 loc. 5537 / 5538 / 5539
- Email: loren_b_legarda@yahoo.com.ph
- loren@lorenlegarda.com.ph
- Website: www.lorenlegarda.com.ph
LOREN BAUTISTA LEGARDA is the only daughter of Antonio Cabrera Legarda of San Pablo, Laguna and Manila, and the late Bessie Gella Bautista of Antique and Malabon. She is the granddaughter of one of the late pillars of Philippine journalism, Jose P. Bautista, editor-in-chief of the pre-Martial Law Manila Times.
EDUCATION. An achiever all her life, Loren completed her primary and secondary schooling at the Assumption with honors. She obtained a degree in broadcast communication, cum laude, from the University of the Philippines, the country’s premier university. While working as a journalist, Loren pursued further studies at the National Defense College of the Philippines, where she obtained a degree in national security administration and graduated at the top of her class, receiving gold medals for both Academic Excellence and Best Thesis. Loren is now a reserve officer in the Armed Forces of the Philippines with the rank of lieutenant colonel.