Dr. Maria Jona Develos-Godoy DMD, PhD, is presently the Chairman of the Professional Regulatory Board of Dentistry of the Professional Regulation Commission, Republic of the Philippines. She was the Chairman of the Technical Committee for Dental Education (2009-2014) of the Commission on Higher Education.  She completed her degrees, Doctor of Dental Medicine (1986), Master of Arts (1994), Master of Science in Dental Education (2007) and Doctor of Philosophy (2003) from Centro Escolar University and where she became a University Professor and the Dean (2003-2014) of the School of Dentistry. She was the founding dean of St. Anne College Lucena Inc., College of Dentistry in 2015. DMD, PhD

Dr. Devlos-Godoy is the immediate past Secretary of the South East Asia Association for Dental Education (SEAADE), and a Councilor (2005-2014) of the International Association for Dental Research-South East Asian Division (IADR-SEA).   She had been working with the Secretariat of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th China-ASEAN Forum in Dentistry (CAFD).  She is the managing partner of BGT Healthcare Center, where she does her private practice. She is an active accreditor of the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA). Dr. Godoy is an educator, lecturer, private dental practitioner, researcher and a board examiner.  Her present advocacy is to uplift the standards of dental practice and education in the country through various quality assurance and continuing professional education programs.