MP Diamila Disimban-Ramos, also known as “Jam,” is a member of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority Parliament. She was appointed on August 13, 2019 by then-President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and reappointed on August 11, 2022 by President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Romualdez Marcos Jr.

She is currently the Chairperson of the newly established Committee on Women, Youth, Children, and Persons with Disabilities of the Bangsamoro Parliament. She is also a member of the BTA’s Committee on Finance, Budget, and Management; Committee on Basic, Higher, and Technical Education; Committee on Trade, Investment, and Tourism; Committee on Human Settlements and Development; Committee on Science and Technology; Blue Ribbon Committee; and the Special Committee on Marawi.

Her father is from Taraka, Tamparan, Masiu, and Lumba-Bayabao, Lanao del Sur, while her mother hails from Kabuntalan, Maguindanao, and Pikit, Cotabato. Continuing her family’s lineage, MP Jam was previously enthroned as Bae a Labi a Gaus in Bubong a Masiu in Taraka, Lanao del Sur, in November 2011. She is the mother of six (6) wonderful and loving children and is happily married to Sultan Sa Maul Hadji Acmad Macarambon Ramos. She graduated from Lyceum of the Philippines University in 1995 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, Major in Diplomacy, where she was awarded Outstanding Foreign Service Student of the Year.

She was also a salutatorian at the Ma’had Manila Al-Islamie Arabic School in 1991 and a cadet officer at Manuel L. Quezon University in 1992.

MP Jam has spent more than ten years in government service with an untainted public service record. She became part of the APEC Substantive Group of the Department of Foreign Affairs during the Philippines’ hosting of the 1st APEC Economic Leaders’ Summit in 1995.

Further, she has also worked with the National Youth Commission from 1996 to 1999, the Cooperative Development Authority (National) from 2011 to 2016, and was later detailed to ARMM, where she was designated as the ARMM Focal Person on Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division (AMAD) and Chief of Staff under the Office of Regional Assistant Secretary Pendatun Disimban of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF-ARMM).

MP Jam is also a licensed real estate broker and a licensed real estate appraiser, and thereafter became the Executive Vice President of the Manila Board of Realtors Inc. in 2019.

As a BTA Member, MP Jam is guided by three (3) policy and legislative agendas: “Sustained Peace,” “Effective Governance,” and “Empowered Constituencies.” Her initiatives highly value empowerment, opportunities, services, and benefits that are inclusive, reflective, comprehensive, and responsive to the clamor of the underserved women, youth, children, elderly, orphans, widows, solo parents, Mujahidats, persons with disabilities (PWDs), internally displaced persons (IDPs), and other marginalized Bangsamoro constituents within and outside BARMM.

According to MP Jam, her Jihad is to become part of the collective voice of the Bangsamoro in legislating policies and laws that will uphold our right to self-determination and promote the welfare and development of our people, because to her, “Service to the Bangsamoro People is service to Almighty Allah SWT.”

MP Jam was recognized by the Gawad Pilipino Awards as Most Empowered Women of the Year in 2023, Asia Pinnacle Awards in 2022 as the Most Outstanding Public Servant with Excellent Advocacy on Peace and Effective Governance and the Most Outstanding Leadership and Influential Bangsamoro Women of the Year of the 4th Asia Pacific Luminaire Awards in 2021.