Angelito “Lito” A. Nayan is a Senior Adviser for the Speechwriting Team of the President of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. He is concurrent Career Minister at the Philippine Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York and serves as Vice-Chair of the UN Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) for UNGA76.
Lito joined the Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in October 2003. From 2007 to June 2013, he served as Third Secretary and Vice Consul, then as Second Secretary (Economic Officer) and Consul at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, DC. He was a member of the Philippine Team (2007 to 2010) that negotiated with the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation to secure a US$434 million development “MCC Compact” grant.
Prior to joining the Philippine Foreign Service, Lito’s professional experience includes working with the United Nations in various capacities: Consultant at the UNESCAP in Bangkok, Thailand (1998); UNV International Trainer (2000-2001) for the First Municipal Elections under the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK, 2000-2001); and International Trainer for the first Presidential Elections in Afghanistan under the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNDP-UNAMA, 2004).
He earned his Master of Arts in International Relations degree from the International University of Japan (IUJ) in 1999 (Japanese Government Scholar) and a Bachelor of Science in Economics degree from the University of the Philippines-School of Economics in 1992. He also received a Certificate in Advanced Development Management Program (ADMP) from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan (1997).
Lito is an alumnus of both the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism (2006) and the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in Hawaii (2006).
He speaks Filipino, English, Japanese and basic German.
