Consul Alfonso A. Ver, who arrived to take his Post at the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco on 04 July 2009, brings with him a wealth of experience in diplomatic and consular affairs from his foreign service and home office assignments.

Before his posting in San Francisco, Consul Ver served as First Secretary and Consul General, then promoted to Minister (after passing the Foreign Affairs Career Minister Examination), Consul General  and Deputy Head of Mission, at the Philippine Embassy in Ankara, Republic of Turkey from August 2005 up to July 2009.

His first foreign assignment was as Vice Consul, then promoted to Consul, at the Philippine Consulate General in Guam from 1996 to 2002.

At the Department of Foreign Affairs, he served as Special Assistant to the Undersecretary for Administration (2004-2005), Director for Visas (2002-2003), and Assistant Director for Consular Affairs (1995-1996).

Consul Ver was a member of Philippine delegations to various international meetings and numerous ASEAN conferences throughout his diplomatic career.
 
Consul Ver earned his B.A. degree in Political Science in 1986 and his graduate diploma in Public Management in 1995, both at the University of the Philippines.  He acquired his Master of Arts in Public Policy in 2004 at the National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies in Tokyo, Japan, as a scholar under the Young Leaders Program of the Japanese Ministry of Education.

He is a career officer of the Philippine foreign service corps having passed the Foreign Service Examination in 1993 and the Career Minister Examination in 2008.

Consul Ver or “Doy” is 45 years old. He is married to Ms. Caroline Belinda Custodio and they have three boys, Raymond Isaac (14), Brian Sven (11) and Rafael Luigi (3).