HEHERSON T. ALVAREZ served as Senator for two inextendible terms of 12 years. In May 1998 he was elected as Member of the House of Representatives. He served the Macapagal-Arroyo administration as Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and was recently appointed as the Presidential Adviser on Overseas Filipino Communities, and national spokesperson of Lakas-CMD, the biggest political party in the country.