Background
Tamano is the eighth son of the late Senator Mamintal Tamano and civic leader Hadja Putri Zorayda Abbas Tamano.
Tamano is the eighth son of the late Senator Mamintal Tamano and civic leader Hadja Putri Zorayda Abbas Tamano.
Tamano attended The Philippine Women"s University - Jose Abad Santos Memorial School and Louisiana Salle Greenhills for his primary and secondary education, respectively. He went to the Ateneo de Manila University to pursue an Bachelor of Arts in Economics and later law (Juris Doctor), graduating in 1992 and 1996 respectively. Thereafter, he attended the University of the Philippines and took a master"s degree in public administration.
In June 2005, he matriculated in Harvard Law School"s Master of Laws graduate program
He was the first Filipino Muslim to graduate from Harvard Law School.
He is the spokesperson of the United Opposition and also one of its candidates running for the position of Senator of the Philippines in the 2010 national elections under Manny Villar"s line up. He was the President of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. Tamano is married to Rowena Kapunan, daughter of retired Supreme Court Justice Santiago Kapunan.
They have two children.
During the 2007 elections, Tamano was the spokesperson for the United Opposition. He lectures on legal writing at the Ateneo Law School, and on constitutional law at the Far Eastern University Institute of Law and the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila.