{"id":"mikee-romero","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mikee-romero","language":"en","name":"Mikee Romero","name_en":"Mikee Romero","name_ne":null,"description":"Filipino politician and businessman","headline":"Filipino politician and businessman","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Michael Odylon \"Mikee\" Lagman Romero (Tagalog: [ˈmaɪki roˈmɛɾo]; born March 21, 1973) is a Filipino businessman, politician, and sportsman. He served as the Party-list Congressman for 1-Pacman from 2016 to 2025 holding roles as Senior Deputy Speaker.","summary_more":["As a businessman, Romero is currently the chairman and president of Globalport 900 and owns the NorthPort Batang Pier basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). As of December 2018, his declared net worth is ₱7.858 billion. 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Michael Romero, Ph.D. (19th Congress).jpg by House of Representatives of the Philippines (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rep._Michael_Romero,_Ph.D._(19th_Congress).jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Mikee Romero, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Rep. Michael Romero, Ph.D. (19th Congress).jpg — House of Representatives of the Philippines, Public domain.","cite":"\"Mikee Romero\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/mikee-romero. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T11:28:20Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/mikee-romero","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/mikee-romero","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/mikee-romero?lang=ne"}}