{"id":56288,"date":"2025-12-13T04:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=56288"},"modified":"2025-12-13T05:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T05:09:05","slug":"ms-alicia-kalaw-fernandez-spouse-of-ambassador-philippine-elected-vice-president-of-the-islamabad-foreign-womens-association-ifwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/ms-alicia-kalaw-fernandez-spouse-of-ambassador-philippine-elected-vice-president-of-the-islamabad-foreign-womens-association-ifwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms Alicia Kalaw-Fernandez , Spouse of Ambassador Philippine , Elected Vice President of The Islamabad Foreign Women\u2019s Association (IFWA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56303\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Philippine-Pakistan-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Philippine-Pakistan-1.jpg 492w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Philippine-Pakistan-1-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/>ISLAMABAD : The Islamabad Foreign Women\u2019s Association (IFWA) has elected Mme. Alicia Kalaw-Fernandez, wife of the Philippine Ambassador to Pakistan, His Excellency Dr. Emmanuel R. Fernandez, as the Association\u2019s new Vice President.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mme. Fernandez brings to IFWA an impressive background in finance, diplomacy-adjacent service, and the arts. Before joining her husband in his diplomatic postings, she served for many years in the Philippine banking industry, rising to the position of Assistant Vice President at Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC), one of the Philippines\u2019 top commercial banks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In the diplomatic community, Mme. Fernandez has previously served as Treasurer of the Asian Ambassadors\u2019 Ladies International Association (AALIA) in Amman, Jordan and of the Asociaci\u00f3n Internacional de Diplom\u00e1ticos en Espa\u00f1a (AIDE) in Madrid, Spain.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">She is also an accomplished painter, chef, and writer, actively contributing to the cultural diplomacy efforts of the embassies where her husband has been assigned.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Islamabad Foreign Women\u2019s Association (IFWA) is an international association that seeks to foster friendship, mutual support, and cross-cultural understanding among expatriate women living in Islamabad.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">IFWA envisions an international community where women from diverse cultures can collaborate meaningfully, promote intercultural dialogue, and support humanitarian, educational, and cultural projects within Pakistan and the diplomatic community.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Membership in IFWA is open to foreign women residing in Islamabad, including the spouses of diplomats, expatriate professionals, and internationally affiliated residents.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56305\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Philippine-Pakistan-1-1-e1765602534345.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"318\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD : The Islamabad Foreign Women\u2019s Association (IFWA) has elected Mme. Alicia Kalaw-Fernandez, wife of the Philippine Ambassador to Pakistan, His Excellency Dr. Emmanuel R. Fernandez, as the Association\u2019s new Vice President. Mme. Fernandez brings to IFWA an impressive background in finance, diplomacy-adjacent service, and the arts. Before joining her husband in his diplomatic postings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[7786,1039,7408,1622,251,7787,1942,5311,5877,129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56288"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56306,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56288\/revisions\/56306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}