Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was born April 5, 1947, the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal, who served as the country's ninth president from 1961 to 1965. She studied economics at Georgetown, where Bill Clinton was a classmate, then taught at Ateneo de Manila — one of her students was Benigno Aquino III, who would later succeed her as president. She entered government in 1987 under Corazon Aquino, Benigno's mother, moved to the Senate in 1992, and became the first female vice president in 1998 under Joseph Estrada. When Estrada was accused of corruption she joined the opposition; the Second EDSA Revol…