Dr. Estrella A. Babano, Regional Administrator and professional leader, was a superb architect and advancer of the Mindanao Peace Initiative, based on her vision of empowering all people through public education and training that would be most successful under peaceful conditions and inter-group trust and cooperation. A former Regional Director of the Department of Education for Northern and Central Mindanao and also the former education attaché of the Philippines Embassy in Riyad  for Philippine schools overseas in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. Now she serves as the Chairwoman of the Mindanao Peace Initiatives.