Raul P. Villanueva

BGen. Raul P. Villanueva (Ret) is a seasoned security and defense professional with over three decades of leadership experience in the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the corporate sector.

A graduate of the Philippine Military Academy, Class of 1990, he further enhanced his expertise through advanced studies in management and counter-terrorism, including a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Philippine Christian University and specialized training at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Israel. He finished also the Project Planning, Management and Development Course at the Asian Institute of Management. He also finished the International Security and Risk Management Course.

Throughout his distinguished military career, he held key leadership and intelligence positions, notably as Commander of the 3^rd Military Intelligence Battalion, Commander, Geospatial Intelligence Group, ISAFP Deputy Commander of Joint Task Force National Capital Region (JTF NCR), Defense and Armed Forces Attaché to Israel and as Commander of the Communication and Information Services of the AFP.

Transitioning to the corporate sector, he currently serves as Senior Vice President of PAGCOR’s Security and Monitoring Sector where he also serves as a member of the Executive Committee and Housing Committee. He also chairs the Safety and Health Committee of PAGCOR.

Brigadier General Raul P. Villanueva (Ret.) graduated from the Philippine Military Academy in 1990. His military career spanned for 36 years and held numerous sensitive positions in the Armed Forces of the Philippines spending 23 years serving in the Intelligence Community and the rest in the field of Infantry Operations, Communication, Geospatial Technology and Information System.

He is a former Defense and Armed Forces Attache to Israel from 2017 to 2020 and served as Deputy Commander of the Joint Task Force NCR.  Commander of the Communication Electronics and Information System Services of the AFP.

In 2009, he took up the Command and General Staff Course while completing a Master’s Degree in Management, Major in Public Administration, at Philippine Christian University (PCU). He also took up the Counter-Terrorism Course at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel and the International Security and Risk Management Course.