Assistant Commissioner Isabel D. Agito

Known for her passion for excellence and amiable personality, Assistant Commissioner Isabel D. Agito’s public career spans 32 years of exemplary service all in the Commission on Audit.

Assistant Commissioner Agito joined COA as auditing examiner in 1976 and rose from the ranks to become unit head of several national and corporate government auditing units, later supervising several special projects of the Commission while serving as head of the Management Committee Secretariat. Until her promotion to Assistant Commissioner, the third highest position and highest career position in the Commission, on August 28, 2008, she was senior director under then Commissioner now Chairman Reynaldo A. Villar.

Ms. Agito was executive officer of special task force on special projects, and later supervised the Special Task Force to Review and/or Audit Contracts involving Infrastructure Projects and Purchases of Supplies, Materials, and Equipment of the LGUs in Metro Manila and the Pilot Government-Wide and Sectoral Performance Audit on the Socialized Housing Program of the Government.

Her extensive experience in the field and dedication to duty qualified her for the heavy responsibility of a United Nations auditor. Her audit skills were further honed following assignments to audit the UN Headquarters in New York from 1989 to 1991, and again in 2000 and 2008, as well as foreign-based government agencies in London, United Kingdom in 2007. As a member of the Senior Executive Development Program (Batch 7), her individual action plan resulted in COA Memorandum No. 99-021 dated April 7, 1999 on the Segregation of VFM Reports from the AAR and Providing Guidelines for the Preparation, Submission, and Transmittal of VFM Audit Reports.

A Certified Public Accountant and a lawyer as well as a Career Executive Service Officer, Assistant Commissioner Agito earned her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration major in Accounting from the University of the East in 1972 and her Bachelor of Laws degree from the same university in 1993.

A consistent honor student in elementary and in high school, she was a dean’s lister and a DAWN (official student newspaper of UE) scholar for several semesters in college. She was, likewise, recipient of several awards and citations for leadership including the Most Outstanding Neophyte of the Kappa Gamma Omega Sorority in 1971 and awards in oratorical and extemporaneous speech competitions.

Director Divinia M. Alagon

Named senior director on August 5, 2008, Director Divinia M. Alagon is an indefatigable worker whose astute audit skills were honed by more than 30 years of experience and continuous study.

Ms. Alagon entered government service as a clerical aide at the MPW-Manila in 1972, the same year she earned her bachelor’s degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Sto. Tomas.

Her enthusiasm for further developing her skills enabled her to finish her bachelor’s degree in Accounting at the National College of Business and the Arts in 1978. Already a Certified Public Accountant, She joined the Commission in 1979 as an auditing examiner. She later rose from the ranks becoming head of various national, local, and corporate government auditing units. She also served as resident ombudsman of COA Regional Office No. IV for many years. She was appointed assistant director in 2003 assigned at the corporate government sector (CGS) prior to her promotion as senior director.

While judiciously performing her duties at the Commission, Director Alagon graduated cum laude at the Jose Rizal College where she obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree in 1987. She took and passed the Bar examinations in 1988. She has also merited units in graduate studies in business administration at the University of Sto. Tomas.

She was also trained in financial administration by ALDAB, Sydney, Australia in 1995.

Ms. Alagon took the Senior Executive Development Program and is also a career executive service officer. She is presently the chairperson of the sub-committee on gender audit of the Commission’s Gender and Development.