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Mr. Lito Monico Cabrera Lorenzana is the current president and chairperson of the board of the Centrist Democracy Political Institute (CDPI) which has offices in Makati City and Davao City. He was the chairperson of the board and president of the Technical Assistance Center for the Development of Rural and Urban Poor (TACDRUP), an NGO based in Davao City that served largely the communities in Southern Mindanao for the last 35 years.

Mr. Lorenzana earned his Master in Public Administration in the Harvard University – Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and was the first president of the Harvard-KSG Alumni Association of the Philippines. He was recruited by the Cory Aquino Government to her cabinet and assumed the positions of undersecretary of the departments of local government (DLG) and environment and natural resources (DENR).

Subsequently he also served the administrations of Presidents Ramos, Estrada and Arroyo in various capacities as Commissioner of Kabisig, Edsa People Power Commission, Charter Change Commission and the Chairman of the Charter Change Advocacy Commission. He sat on various corporate boards of government and private corporations and consultant for the NRMP program of the World Bank, the USAID and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.

In the political arena, he was one of the founders of the PDP Laban with Nene Pimentel; fathered the Successor Generation with Rey Teves and with Peter Koeppinger who was a co-convenor of the Centrist Democratic Movement Federation of the Philippines. Mr. Lorenzana is the current President of the Centrist Democratic Party (CDP): Ang Partido ng Tunay na Demokrasya.