President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. named Maria Lourdes Doria-Velarde as acting member of the Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG), representing the private employers’ sector. She replaced Mylah Roque, the wife of former presidential spokesman Harry Roque.
Doria-Velarde was a former deputy general manager for administration of Duty Free Philippines, Malacañang said in its announcement on Monday. She also served in the Board of Trustees of non-profit organization Nayong Pilipino Foundation and state-run Intercontinental Broadcasting Corp. (IBC).
Malacañang also mentioned that she is a content creator and a culinary arts expert. A newspaper report from 2004 identified Doria-Velarde as daughter-in-law of influential televangelist Mariano ‘Mike’ Velarde, leader of religious group El Shaddai.