Associate Professor at the Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture (CA), as Chancellor for three years effective Nov.1, 2005.

Dr. Velasco obtained his BS in Agriculture (1978) and MS in Entomology (1982) degrees from UPLB, and his PhD degree in Entomology (1990) from the University of Queensland, Australia. His professional career spans more than two-and-a-half decades of administration and management, college teaching, conducting research and extension, and rendering technical services to various government agencies, mostly in the agriculture sector.

As dean of the CA from 1999 to 2002, he provided the leadership for the reorganization of the college and spearheaded the development of curricular proposals for BS Landscape Architecture and BS Agrobiotechnology. He likewise reorganized the National Crop Protection Center (NCPC) and established three units as director from 1995 to 1999. He has contributed to the country’s agricultural development as chair, member, adviser, and consultant in various committees and programs of the Department of Agriculture (DA), Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD). He is Chair of the Technical Panel for Agricultural Education of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) since 2005. He has led researches and published papers on agricultural enterprise, surveillance and detection of pest, pest control, and IPM. A member of six professional associations, he has served as president of the International Society for Southeast Asian Agriculture Sciences (2001) and as board member of the UP Alumni Association for the last five years.