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Office of the President
About the President
Our Brother President
Brother Iñigo Riola FSC is an educator and a member of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, commonly known in the Philippines as the De La Salle Brothers. He currently serves as President of De La Salle University-Dasmariñas.
He holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Saint Mary's College of California. He also earned a master's degree in history, teaching credentials, and a bachelor's degree in business management from De La Salle University, Manila. In addition, he pursued graduate studies in Religious Education at the Loyola School of Theology, Ateneo de Manila University.
Brother Iñigo concurrently serves as the Auxiliary Visitor of the Lasallian East Asia District (LEAD), where he helps foster the Lasallian educational mission across the region. In this role, he works closely with the De La Salle Brothers and Lasallian Partners in Myanmar, Japan, and Hong Kong. He also oversees the brothers' formation houses in Myanmar, Thailand, and the Philippines.
Throughout his ministry, Brother Iñigo has held various leadership, pastoral, and formation roles. He taught in several Lasallian schools in the Philippines and later served as President and Principal of St. Jaime Hilario School-De La Salle Bataan. He was involved in Vocation Ministry for both the Philippine Sector and the Lasallian District of San Francisco, New Orleans.
He also served as Bursar of the De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines, as a member of the Finance and Investment Board of De La Salle Brothers, Inc., and as a member of the Investment Committee of De La Salle Philippines. He was Chair of the Community Directors' Association of the De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines. He also worked in formation as Coordinator of the Apostolic Training Program for young Brothers in the Philippines.
As Auxiliary Visitor, Brother Iñigo has been instrumental in raising funds for the Lasallian mission in Myanmar and has played a key role in establishing a new Lasallian educational ministry in Yangon, which aims to provide learning opportunities for young people in a challenging environment. He also supported the Sector of Japan in the creation of its Sector Mission Council, which is tasked with overseeing the Lasallian mission in Japan, particularly the development and implementation of formation programs for Lasallian Partners and students.
Message from the President
World Teachers' Day Message
5 October 2026
Dear Lasallian Teachers,
I still remember a video call I received from a former student whom I had not heard from for some time. He called because he wanted to share some good news. He had become a father. Then he showed me his baby.
More recently, another former student called me after he was accepted into Harvard. We had kept in touch over the years, and I had continued to encourage him in his academic journey. He told me he wanted me to be among the first to know and thanked me for believing in him.
I was happy, of course, for both of them. But those two calls also reminded me why being a teacher is such a special vocation. We spend only a few years, sometimes only a semester, with our students. We teach them, encourage them, get frustrated with them sometimes, and hope that somehow, we are making a difference. Then they graduate and move on with their lives. And we do not always get to see what happens next.
Last year, during the Jubilee of the World of Education, Pope Leo XIV called teaching "a great act of love." I like that description because so much of teaching really is an act of love. It is giving something of ourselves to young people without always knowing what will come of it. In our Lasallian tradition, St. John Baptist de La Salle expressed this in another way: "To touch the hearts of your students is the greatest miracle you can perform."
Beyond the lessons, I think this is what our students remember most: the teacher who believed in them, who challenged them to do better, who took the time to listen, and who cared. And years later, if we are fortunate, we sometimes get a phone call. We learn that one has been accepted into a dream school. Another has become a parent. Others may never call at all. Yet we trust that somewhere along the way, something we gave them remains.
Maybe this is why I find these words from the Book of Daniel especially meaningful: "Those who teach others to live right will shine like stars forever and ever." (Daniel 12:3)
Thank you for all that you do, and Happy World Teachers' Day!
Sincerely.
Br. Iñigo Riola FSC (SGD)
President
President's Desk
Contact Information
Office of the President
 | Ayuntamiento de Gonzalez Bldg., De La Salle University – Dasmariñas, Philippines, 4115 |
 | op@dlsud.edu.ph |
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