Cathy Untalan

Background Untalan finished her high school education at St. Paul College of Parañaque. She graduated cum laude in psychology at the University of the Philippines Diliman and received her master's degree in Environment and Natural Resource Management from the University of the Philippines Open University.

On August 18, 2006, she cohosted the awards night of Moonrise Film Festival, an annual film festival covering various environmental and cultural issues, sponsored by the Center for Environmental Awareness and Education, which was held at the Gateway Mall in Cubao, Quezon City.

She was a courtside reporter for the San Beda Red Lions during the first half of the 82nd season of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Two years later, she became the courtside reporter for her alma mater's team, the UP Fighting Maroons during the University Athletic Association of the Philippines' 67th season.

She is the spokesperson of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources for various campaigns and of the Philippine Department of Health for their anti-tobacco smoking campaign. The Sustainable Energy Development Program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) also chose her to be the spokesperson of their biofuels campaigns. The USAID cited her efforts and participation in their programs and she was awarded an environmental ambassador recognition, the first to be given such distinction by the agency. She hosted a show in NBN Channel 4 entitled Kapihan ng Bayan with veteran broadcast journalists, Mario Garcia and Ely Saludar. She went on to anchor PTV News with Charms Espina and Richmond Cruz as late-night and with Alex Santos as primetime, Ulat Bayan with Aljo Bendijo and PTV News Tonight with Espina and Joee Guilas. She also hosted radio shows on DZRH. She used to be a columnist in the first green lifestyle magazine in the Philippines, called, Gen G Magazine.

Beauty pageants She was crowned Miss Philippines Earth 2006, and represented the Philippines at Miss Earth 2006, where she won Miss Water (second runner-up).