CLARK FREEPORT An executive of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) is the new president and chief executive officer of Clark International Airport Corporation.
Joshua Bingcang, BCDA senior vice president, took his oath of office before Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista to assume the CIAC post.
Bingcang replaced CIAC officer-in-charge Darwin Cunanan.
CIAC, a subsidiary of the BCDA, is mandated to ensure the development of the Clark civil aviation complex while the DOTr exercises policy supervision and operational control over the CIAC.
Under the Marcos administration, the DOTr assigned CIAC to exercise regulatory supervision and oversight of activities occurring within the aviation complex, including the Clark International Airport.
Bingcang was appointed officer-in-charge of the Clark aviation firm from 2019 to 2020, months after the privatization of the Clark International Airport during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He will now head the Clark aviation firm poised to strengthen its commercial, engineering and corporate management teams to develop a globally-competitive service and logistics center at the aviation complex surrounding the Clark International Airport.
As senior vice president of BCDA, Bingcang led the Clark airport expansion project.
This is considered the fastest infrastructure project implemented by the national government which set the template for all other projects under the Duterte administration’s ‘Build, Build, Build’ program.
Bingcang is a licensed electrical engineer and holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of the Philippines.
He also attended an Urban Policy and Governance program at the Nanyang Technological CV University, and trained at the Harvard Kennedy School in Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure.
He also managed the completion of the New Clark City project—a 9,450-hectare modern metropolis located within the Clark Special Economic Zone and envisioned to be the next growth driver in Luzon.
CIAC is the government corporation managing the 2,367-hectare Clark Civil Aviation Complex, home to the Clark International Airport, and host to the mixed-use commercial hub Clark Global City and other locators engaged in manufacturing, information and technology, renewable energy, and other non-aviation-related