Career
He had worked as an economic analyst, account officer, development bank manager and as a consultant to various financial institutions. He joined politics in 1995 and was elected as city councilor of Davao City for nine (9) consecutive years. In the May 2007 elections, he ran as a 3rd District Congressman and was re-elected in 2010 for his second term.
He run unopposed in his third and last term as congressman of the 3rd district of Davao City.
Ungab served as chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in the Fifteenth Congress and was primarily responsible for the passage of the law amending the excise taxes for tobacco and alcohol otherwise known as the Sin Tax Law of 2012. He now serves as chairman of the powerful Committee on Appropriations in the Sixteenth Congress.
Ungab is also a reserve Philippine Army officer in the Army Reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel and assigned as the curremt battalion commander of the 3rd Metro Davao Infantry Battalion (Ready Reserve) under the 22nd Infantry Division (Philippines).
