Andres D. Bautista

Juan Andres "Andy" Donato Bautista is the former chairman of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) of the Philippines and former dean of the Institute of Law of the Far Eastern University, a private, non-sectarian university in Manila, Philippines.

Juan Andres D. Bautista
Bautista in 2017
Chairman of the Commission on Elections
In office
April 28, 2015  October 23, 2017
Appointed byBenigno Aquino III
Preceded byChristian Robert S. Lim (acting)
Sixto Brillantes
Succeeded byChristian Robert S. Lim (acting)
Sheriff Abas
Chairperson of the Presidential Commissioner on Good Government
In office
September 13, 2010  April 27, 2015
Preceded byCamilo Sabio
Succeeded byRichard Roger Amurao (Acting Capacity)

Bautista is a member of the Consultative Commission on Charter Change, an independent body formed in 2005 by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to propose revisions to the 1987 Philippine Constitution.

He is a frequent resource speaker on topics concerning Philippine constitutional law and the state of legal education and profession in the country. He was once nominated to be the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.

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