CORE FACULTY
Former President, National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP)
Department of National Defense
GEN. FERMIN R DE LEON JR., PhD, MNSA, started his primary education at the former St. Theresa’s College, Baguio City, and finished his elementary and secondary education at San Beda College, Manila, and his tertiary education at the Philippine Military Academy in1977. He took his MA in Philosophy from Saint Louis University, Baguio City, and his PhD in Philosophy from De La Salle University, Manila. After his doctorate, he took his Master in National Security Administration (MNSA) from the National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP) where he graduated as class valedictorian. Gen. de Leon had occupied various command and staff positions in the AFP since his commission in 1977.
BGen de Leon took a path less traveled when he joined the Corps of Professors at PMA and acquired twenty years of experience in education and training, being a member of PMA’s permanent military faculty and administration, having first serve as an instructor (of Philosophy and Humanities subjects), until he became the Dean, Corps of Professors, AFP.He taught, trained and mentored no less than 3,895 graduates of PMA for 20 years from 1991 to 2010, the most senior whom are now Full Colonels in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
Gen. de Leon is a lecturer at the National Defense College of the Philippines on national security concepts, moral and ethical leadership, understanding the local communist movement and civil-military relations, among others, He has also been a lecturer at the AFP Command and General Staff College; the Naval Education and Training Command; various offices at General Headquarters; the AFP Area Commands; the Philippine Army Infantry Divisions; the Philippine National Police; the National Security Council; and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines Peace Negotiating Panel, among others.
He has been a Consultant of the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Peace Process (OPAPP). He is an associate Fellow of the Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA); a member of the Board of Trustees of the PMA Foundation Inc. (PMAFI), supporting the PMA faculty with an average of P5M in annual grants; and a member of the Department of National Defense’ Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) Multi-Sectoral Governance Council (MSGC) overseeing its strategic institutional roadmap implementation.
Gen de Leon is a recipient of the Bedans of the Century Award (from 1901 to 2001) being the top 143 alumni among more than 35,000 graduates of San Beda College, Manila. In addition to his military awards and decorations, he has been conferred with the PMA Achievement Award, the NDCP Outstanding Alumnus Award, and the Distinguished Bedan Award among others.
After 38 years, Gen. de Leon retired from active military service last August 2010 in order to assume the civilian position of President, National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP). It was the first time that a member of the Corps of Professor, AFP was appointed as President, NDCP. Gen. de Leon is the only PMA alumnus who became Dean of the Philippine Military Academy, a Brigadier General, and alumnus and President of the National Defense College of the Philippines.
For six years as President, NDCP, he represented the Philippines as an active member and plenary speaker at the annual Track I ASEAN Regional Forum Heads of Defense Universities, Colleges, ad Institutions Meeting (ARF HDUCIM), and the quarterly Track II Network of ASEAN Defense and Security Institutes (NADI) on national, regional, and global security issues. Gen. de Leon raised the MNSA graduate success rate from a low 48% when he assumed as President in 2010 to 130% at the end of his term in 2016, without any corresponding additional budgetary support from DBM, exceeding targets and transforming the NDCP into the Best DND Bureau in2014.
Since 2012, Gen. de Leon implemented the SND’s mandate in Institutionalizing the much-resisted MNSA as a requirement for Brigadier General positions, elevating the defense and national security education of the future AFP’s senior leadership from the traditional military-centric-operational level to the multi-dimensional, human-security-centric, strategic level, benchmarking with international counterparts.
During his 6-year term as President, NDCP from 2010-2016, Gen de Leon has personally taught, educated, and mentored 300 graduates of MNSA; 600 graduates of the AFP Senior Executive Course on National Security (SECNS); and 465 Barangay Chairs and Councilors pf Quezon City graduates of the Barangay Critical Incident and Internal Security Course; all future senior local and national security leaders o the Armed Forces of the Philippines and participating foreign armed forces, civilian government agencies, and the private and business sectors.
Gen. de Leon is happily married to Annaly Caldoza Peligrino of General Santos City and Davao City.
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