Ethel Agnes Pascua-Valenzuela is a Commissioner at the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for the Philippines government. She also serves as the Chairman of the CHED TWG on Lifelong Learning and is a member of the Technical Panel on Transnational Education and Distance Education.

Dr. Valenzuela has worked as the Education Advisor on the Future of Education of the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Research And Development Platform of the ASEAN Secretariat. She served as the first female Director of the SEAMEO Secretariat, the executive arm of the SEAMEO Council of Ministers of Education from 11 member states, from April 2019 to March 2023 and its first female Deputy Director for Programmes and Development in Bangkok, Thailand.

Outside of Southeast Asia, Dr. Valenzuela served as a governing board member of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in Hamburg, Germany, and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) in Montreal, Canada. She served as a member of the UNESCO Intl Standard of Classification in Education (ISCED)-Teacher Advisory Group, and the UNESCO Teacher Task Force. She represented the Asia Pacific Region in the UNESCO Education 2030 High-Level Steering Committee, Sherpa Group from Sept 2017 until March 2023. She is a jury member of the UNESCO ICT Prize in Education and the International Council of Distance Education ICT Prize of Excellence.

As a passionate educator, Dr. Valenzuela continues to teach PhD classes as a professorial lecturer at the Department of Educational Leadership and Professional Services, College of Education, University of the Philippines -Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.

She is an editorial board member of the UP College of Education Philippine Journal of Education Studies and presently the President of Pi Lambda Theta, an international honours society for women education leaders. She was awarded as ASIA Women Leader inEducation 2024 and a PNU Eminent Alumnae Award in 2014.