Cristina Padolina

Maria Cristina Damasco-Padolina (born 1946) is Filipino chemist, educator, and academic leader. She recently served as the seventh president and chief academic officer of Centro Escolar University in Manila, Philippines. She is a professor emeritus of the Institute of Chemistry at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. She also served as the first chancellor of the University of the Philippines Open University.

Career

In 1999, Cristina Padolina received the Most Distinguished Alumna Award given by the UP Alumni Engineers. Padolina is a member of the Advisory Group of the National Health Promotion Committee, and was on the executive board of the Asian Association of Open Universities from 1998 to 2001. She was appointed as the university's president and chief academic officer in September 2006. She led the university's centennial in 2007.