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Nigel Paul C. Villarete (born September 18, 1962) is a Filipino civil engineer and urban planner. He is currently the General Manager of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA), located in Mactan Island, Lapu-lapu City, Cebu, Philippines, and the Chief Executive Officer of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA).

Prior to his appointment to MCIA, Villarete served as the City Administrator of Cebu City in 2001 to 2003, and its City Planning and Development Coordinator from 2003 to 2010. He was also Chief of the Infrastructure Development Division of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) – Regional Office No. 7 in 1989 to 1994. He is presently a Member of the Board of Civil Engineers of the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) of the Republic of the Philippines.

Personal background
Villarete is the son of Engr. Wilbert S. Villarete and Engr Delia Villarete, and comes from the Villarete Clan which hails from Iloilo in Panay Island, Philippines. Married to Emma Encinares Cañazares, they have a son, named of Samuel Ken.

He was born in Cebu City, Philippines and raised in Toboso, Negros Occidental in 1967. He spent his elementary and secondary (high) school years living in Danao Development Corporation (DDC).

Educational background
He returned to Cebu City during his college years and completed his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (BSCE), Magna cum laude, from the Cebu Institute of Technology (CIT) in 1983. He proceeded to graduate school and earned his Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok, Thailand in 1986. In 1999, he completed hi Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) from the University of the Philippines – School of Urban and Regional Planning (UP-SURP) in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.

Professional background
Villarete started his engineering career in the academe, as a Member of the Faculty, Civil Engineering Department of the Cebu Institute of Technology in 1983, before he left for further studies in Bangkok in 1984. Upon his return to Cebu City in 1986, he was appointed as the Head of the Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Architecture, of the University of the Visayas (UV) in Cebu City, Philippines.

In 1989, he left the university and was appointed as Monitoring and Evaluation Engineer of the Province of Cebu by then Cebu Provincial Governor Emilio (Lito) M.R. Osmeña, staying only for a month, when he was appointed as Chief of Infrastructure of NEDA Reg. 7, a post he held until 1994. Transferring to the private sector in 1995, Villarete then became the Manager for Planning, Studies, and Development (PSAD) Division, of SCHEMA Konsult, Inc. (SKI) – Cebu Office, and was instrumental in the formulation of a number of Local Government (Cities and Municipalities) Master Plans and Infrastructure Project Feasibility Studies. After completing his DURP in 1999, he was also appointed as Senior Lecturer II at the University of the Philippines in the Visayas – Cebu College (UPVCC), Management Division, and taught Urban Planning subjects until 2010.

In 2001, then Mayor Tomas Osmeña, who after a political absence of six years, came back and won for a second set of three-year terms, brought Villarete with him from the private sector and appointed him as City Administrator of Cebu City. After two years, and recognizing the importance of urban development of the city, Osmeña appointed Villarete as City Planning and Development Coordinator, a position he held until October 25, 2010, when he was appointed as General Manager of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport, CEO of MCIAA.

Government work
Villarete's stint with the Provincial Government of Cebu in 1989 was short-lived. But he made up for it when he became the Infrastructure Chief of NEDA-7, which covers the provinces of Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental, and Siquijor. As Chief Economic Development Specialist (CEDS) for Infrastructure, Villarete was involved in the planning and project preparation, and/or the appraisal and evaluation of major infrastructure projects in the region, and sometimes, including the post-evaluation thereof. Most notable among the projects where Villarete got involved in were the following:
 * Metro Cebu Development Project I, II, and II, JICA (formerly called OECF, then JBIC)
 * Metro Cebu Water Supply Project, Phase II (Maghaway Weir), ADB
 * Second Mandaue-Mactan Bridge (now called the Marcelo H. Fernan Bridge), JICA (formerly called OECF, then JBIC)
 * Feasibility Study of the Metro Cebu Mass Transport System, Province of Cebu
 * Mactan International Airport Development Project (MIADP), JICA (formerly called OECF, then JBIC)
 * MCDP-III Project Components: South Reclamation Project (SRP), and
 * MCDP-III Project Components: Cebu South Coastal Road Project (CSCRP), JICA (formerly called OECF, then JBIC)

In 1995, Villarete was selected as one of the Private Sector Representatives (PSRs) of the Regional Development Council of Central Visayas (RDC-7), for a term of three years. In 1998, he was reselected for a second term as RDC-PSR until 2001. It was also in 1995 when the Metro Cebu Bridge Management Board (MCBMB) was created and Villarete was appointed by the RDC-7 as its first Chairman. He was later succeeded by then Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Regional Director Bashir Rasuman, then Provincial Governor Pablo Garcia, and in 2004, Governor Gwendolyn Garcia, who sits as the current MCBMB Chairman.

During the period 2001 to 2010, when he was connected with the City Government of Cebu, as City Administrator, and later City Planning and Development Coordinator, Villarete held the following positions/directing the following international programs and projects:
 * Project Manager, MCDP-III – South Reclamation Project (SRP), funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), formerly called the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF), and later the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
 * Program Coordinator, Kitakyushu Initiative (KI) Network, under the auspices of the United Nations – Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
 * Program Coordinator, Country Program for Children (CPC) – 6, funded by the United Nations Childrens' Fund (UNICEF)
 * Project Coordinator, City Development Initiatives for Asia (CDIA), supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), and the Government of Spain
 * BRT Project Development Officer, Pre-Feasibility Study for the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System, funded by the Public-Private Infrastructure Assistance Facility (PPIAF) and the World Bank

Current Appointment
Following his successful election as the fifteenth president of the Republic of the Philippines last May 10, 2010, President Benigno Aquino III has selected Nigel Paul C. Villarete to head the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA). This move was supported by the Liberal Party (President Aquino's party) in Cebu. On October 26, 2010, Nigel Paul Villarete assumed office as the Chief Executive Officer of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) replacing Brigadier General Danilo Francia (Ret.).