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Filipino peace negotiator

Miriam Coronel-Ferrer is a Filipino peace negotiator who was the chair of the peace panel of the government of the Philippines during the time of President Simeon Benigno Aquino III (2010–2016).

On behalf of the government, Coronel-Ferrer signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.^[1] She is the first female chief negotiator in the world to sign a final peace accord with a rebel group.^[2]

She is also a political science professor at the University of the Philippines (UP).

Early life and education

Coronel-Ferrer graduated cum laude from UP Diliman with a degree in philosophy in 1980. She also possesses a master's degree in Southeast Asian studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury.^[3]

Career

In the early 2000s, she served as the director of the UP Third World Studies Center and was a convenor of the Program on Peace, Democra