Ramon "Ricky" Arellano Carandang (born September 2, 1967) is a Filipino journalist and former government official.
Notable for his tenure as a news correspondent and anchor for ABS-CBN and the ANC, Carandang resigned from broadcasting on July 9, 2010, to join the government as Secretary of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO) under President Benigno Aquino III.
He spent part of his early childhood in Sacramento, California, attending Isadore Cohen Elementary School.
He later returned to the Philippines and completed his high school and college education at the Ateneo de Manila University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Management Economics in 1989.
Carandang began his media career as a radio anchor for DZAR Angel Radyo in 1993.