THE NEWLY appointed secretary of the Department of Energy (DoE), Sharon S. Garin, took her oath before President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., on Monday.
“Secretary Sharon Garin’s experience in lawmaking and shaping energy policy will help us achieve our goal of providing every Filipino family with more reliable, affordable, and clean energy under the Bagong Pilipinas initiative,” Mr. Marcos wrote in a Facebook post in Filipino.
Ms. Garin has been serving as officer-in-charge (OIC) of the DoE since May 2025, having officially replaced Raphael M. Lotilla, who was appointed secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
Before taking on the role of OIC, Ms. Garin served as DoE undersecretary beginning in 2022, and lawmaker, representing the AAMBIS-Owa Partylist, from 2010 to 2022.
She served as deputy speaker from 2016 to 2019 and chaired the House Committee on Economic Affairs from 2019 to 2020, returning to lead the panel again from 2021 to 2022. — Chloe Mari A. Hear
