Maris Diokno

Maria Serena Icasiano Diokno, also known as Maris,[1] is a Filipino historian, academic, and former government official best known[2] for having served as chair of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)[3] and as a high-ranking official of the University of the Philippines (UP) system. She graduated UP magna cum laude and earned a PhD in African and Oriental studies at the University of London in 1983.[4] Diokno succeeded fellow historian Ambeth Ocampo as chairperson of the NHCP on April 7, 2011;[5] she resigned from her position on November 29, 2016 in response to the burial of former president Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig, Metro Manila.[6]

The Honorable Maris Diokno
National Historian Diokno together with former Pres. Benigno Aquino III on Independence Day, 2016
Chairperson of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines
In office April 15, 2011 – November 29, 2016
Preceded by	Ambeth Ocampo
Succeeded by	Rene Escalante
Personal details
Born	Maria Serena Diokno 1954 (1954) (age 67) Manila, Philippines
Nationality	Filipino
Education	University of London University of the Philippines

She is the daughter of Filipino nationalist figure and legislator Sen. Jose W. Diokno, who is the father of human rights, as well as the older sister of human rights advocate Atty. Chel Diokno, the aunt of independent filmmaker Pepe Diokno, and great grand-child of Gen. Ananias Diokno of the Visayan Forces from the Philippine–American War. She aided her father at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), where her father was the founder and first chairman until the Mendiola Massacre caused her to resign for the first time in 1987 before she returned to join the National Historical Commission.[7][8]