Lourdes Quisumbing (February 13, 1921 – October 14, 2017) served as the Philippines' Secretary of Education, Culture, and Sports from 1986 to 1989, under the presidency of Corazon Aquino.
[2] Quisumbing was recommended to President Aquino for the post of Secretary of Education, Culture, and Sports by Justice Cecilia Muñoz-Palma.
Aquino had wanted more women in her cabinet, and the position was often filled by someone with a background in private Catholic education.
[3] While President of Miriam (then Maryknoll) College, Quisumbing developed a curriculum of values education.
[5] Quisumbing resigned as Secretary in December 1989, following the 1989 Philippine coup attempt, and was replaced by Isidro Carino.