Secretary of Social Welfare and Development

Secretary of Social Welfare and Development
Kalihim ng Kagalingang Panlipunan at Pagpapaunlad
Official seal of the Department of Social Welfare and Development
Incumbent Rex Gatchalian since January 31, 2023
Style	The Honourable
Member of	Cabinet
Appointer	The President with the consent of the Commission on Appointments
Term length	No fixed term
Inaugural holder	Gracio Gonzaga
Formation	January 21, 1899 (126 years ago) (1899-01-21)
Website	www.dswd.gov.ph

The secretary of social welfare and development (Filipino: Kalihim ng Kagalingang Panlipunan at Pagpapaunlad) is the head of the Department of Social Welfare and Development and is a member of the President's Cabinet. ^[1]

The current secretary is Rex Gatchalian, who assumed office on January 31, 2023.

List of secretaries of social welfare and development

#	Image	Name	Term Began	Term Ended	President
Minister of Welfare
1		Gracio Gonzaga	January 21, 1899	May 7, 1899	Emilio Aguinaldo
Commissioner of Public Welfare
2		Jose Fabella	November 15, 1921	November 15, 1935	Insular Government (American occupation)
Secretary of Public Instruction, Health, and Public Welfare
3		Juan Nolasco	November 15, 1935	December 24, 1941	Manuel L. Quezon
4		Sergio Osmeña	December 24, 1941	August 1, 1944
Secretary of Justice, Labor and Welfare
5		Honorario Poblador Sr.	August 1, 1944	December 25, 1944	Sergio Osmeña
Act		Mariano A. Eraña	December 25, 1944	February 17, 1945
Secretary of Health and Public Welfare
6		Juan Salcedo	February 17, 1945	November 10, 1945	Sergio Osmeña
7		Jose Locsin	November 10, 1945	May 28, 1946
Secretary of Social Welfare
8		Asuncion Perez	1950	1953	Elpidio Quirino
9		Pacita Madrigal-Warns	1954	1955	Ramon Magsaysay
10		Amparo Villamor	1960	1961	Carlos P. Garcia
11		Tecla San Andres Ziga	1962	1963	Diosdado Macapagal
12		Jose O. Pelayo	1963	1965
13		Francisco T. Remotigue	1966	1967	Ferdinand E. Marcos
14		Gregorio Feliciano	1967	1971
15		Estefania Aldaba-Lim	April 11, 1971	1976
Secretary of Social Services and Development
(15)		Estefania Aldaba-Lim	1976	November 30, 1977	Ferdinand E. Marcos
16		Nathaniel Tablante	December 1, 1977	March 28, 1978
Minister of Social Services and Development
17		Sylvia P. Montes	March 28, 1978	February 25, 1986	Ferdinand E. Marcos
Secretary of Social Welfare and Development
18		Mita Pardo de Tavera	February 25, 1986	June 30, 1992	Corazon C. Aquino
19		Corazon Alma de Leon	June 30, 1992	June 30, 1995	Fidel V. Ramos
20		Lina B. Laigo	June 30, 1995	June 30, 1998
21 [A]		Gloria Macapagal Arroyo	June 30, 1998	October 12, 2000	Joseph Ejercito Estrada
22		Dulce Saguisag	October 12, 2000	January 19, 2001
23		Corazon Soliman	January 20, 2001	July 8, 2005	Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Act		Luwalhati Pablo	July 8, 2005	July 20, 2005
24		Esperanza Cabral	July 21, 2005	August 31, 2009
25		Celia Yangco	September 1, 2009	June 30, 2010
(23)		Corazon Soliman	June 30, 2010	June 30, 2016	Benigno S. Aquino III
Ad Int		Judy Taguiwalo	June 30, 2016	August 16, 2017	Rodrigo Duterte
OIC		Emmanuel Leyco [2]	August 19, 2017	May 9, 2018
Act		Virginia Orogo	May 10, 2018	October 16, 2018
26		Lt. Gen. Rolando Joselito Bautista, AFP (Ret.)	October 17, 2018	June 30, 2022
27		Erwin Tulfo [3]	June 30, 2022 (reappointed October 4, 2022)	December 27, 2022	Bongbong Marcos
Act		Eduardo Punay (OIC)	December 27, 2022	January 31, 2023
28		Rex Gatchalian	January 31, 2023	Incumbent

Notes:

• ^A in concurrent capacity as Vice President

External links

• DSWD website

References

1. "DSWD Organizational Structure". dswd.gov.ph. DSWD. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
2. Cepeda, Mara (August 19, 2017). "Usec Emmanuel Leyco is DSWD OIC – Malacañang". Rappler . Retrieved August 19, 2017.
3. Mercado, Neil Arwin (August 19, 2017). "Erwin Tulfo to serve as DSWD secretary; 4 other Marcos Cabinet members named". Inquirer.net. Retrieved May 30, 2022.