Management Practitioner of the Year by Management Practitioners Association of the Philippines, 1967 named Man of the Year by Asia Weekly Examiner, 1967 Indonesian Order of Mahaputra, 1968 Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of the Order of the White Elephant (Thailand), 1968 Panglima Mangku Negara of Malaysia, 1968 named Diplomat of the Year by editorial board of Diplomatic World Bulletin, 1976 Order of Scientific Merit, first class, from Romania's Academy of Social and Political Sciences, 1980 Books written by Rafael M. Salas People: An International Choice; The Multilateral Approach to Population, Pergamon, 1976. International Population Assistance: The First Decade; A Look at the Concepts and Policies Which Have Guided the UNFPA in Its First Ten Years, Pergamon, 1979. More Than the Grains: Participatory Management in the Philippines Rice Management Program, 1967–1969, Simul Press (Tokyo Press, Japan), 1985. Population: Conflict to Census, United Nations Population Fund (New York, NY), 2000. Reflections on Population, Pergamon, 1984, 2nd edition, 1985. The Far East and Australasia: A Survey and Directory of Asia and the Pacific, Europa, 1981 The International Who' Who, 50th edition, Europa, 1986. Poems Fifty-Six Stones, Weatherhill, 1985. Footprints, Weatherhill (New York, NY), 1986. See also Philippine Center Knowing the Man and the Award – Commission on Population (www.popcom.gov.ph) Biography – Salas, Rafael M(ontinola) Contemporary Authors At Issue by Hern Zenarosa "Paeng Salas remembered on 77th birth anniversary" – Manila Bulletin Online (www.mb.com.ph) United Nations Organization. (www.un.org) References 1928 births Filipino officials of the United Nations Filipino diplomats Executive Secretaries of the Philippines University of the Philippines alumni Harvard Kennedy School alumni People from Negros Occidental Araneta family United Nations Population Fund 1987 deaths Ferdinand Marcos administration cabinet members Visayan people