Ralph Gonzalez Recto is an ultimate public servant - educated, dedicated, diplomatic, and honest. His devotion to family and community, unrelenting desire to make a better life for others, consummate passion for his work, and interactive leadership style serve as the firm foundation upon which he built a reputation as a young and committed leader whether as a legislator or a national executive.

His independence makes him an exemplary and notable public official, the catalyst that makes us see throughour faults in his stinging but profound statements. He can never be boxed into a myopic position to the disdain of his critics.

He is not one to shun the rough waters of public opinion when he tackles unpopular measures. He faces them
head on, but in ways that disarm the enemy. Whoever initially opposes him is soon converted into an ally.

Family and personal life

Ralph Recto’s political lineage is traced to the late nationalist and statesman Claro Mayo Recto, who was a senator for several terms and himself a descendant of the patriotic Mayo and Recto clans of Luzon. Ralph is thesecond child of three of lawyer Rafael Recto who was an Assemblyman during the Regular Batasang Pambansa and Carmen Gonzalez Recto whose family hails from Pangasinan.He is married to Batangas Governor Vilma Santos-Recto of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija, father to Ryan Christian and
stepfather to Luis Philippe Manzano.

Education

Ralph has two Master’s Degrees – one in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines, Diliman and another in Strategic Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific. He also took up a Leadership Scholarship Course at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. Heacquired a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration at the De La Salle University-Manila.His elementary yearswere spent at the Ateneo de Manila University while his High school diploma was received from the De la Salle University.