Politics, Governance and Citizenship

TEN FILIPINO POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

(DEAD OR ALIVE)

SUBMITTED TO:
Sir Erick Calata

SUBMITTED BY:
Galit, Emmanuel
Aguilar, Melanie
Benito, Eloisa
Calabung, Roselyn
Capistrano, Yazmine
Coco, Faith
Cordial, Betina
Hernandez, Fenella
Mendoza, Jamie
Moreno, Verna
Padilla, Alienah
Policarpio, Camille

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ACOSTA, JUAN ROMERO NEREUS OLAIVAR
Juan Romeo Nereus Olaivar Acosta, or also known as
Nereus Acosta, is a Filipino politician, academician, and
political scientist in the Philippines. Acosta is a former
member of the Philippine House of Representatives, from
1998-2007, he represented the first district of the province of
Bukidnon. During the administration of former President
Benigno Aquino III, he was the Presidential Adviser for
Environmental Protection and General Manager of the
Laguna Lake Development Authority.
Acosta was born in Phillips, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon
on the 14th of the month of May year 1966. He studied at Our
Lady of Lourdes Elementary School in Bukidnon and
graduated as valedictorian in 1979. In 1981, during high
school, he studied in Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan and graduated as first
honour. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of the
Philippines Diliman in 1986; he also attended the UP College of Law but wasn’t able to
graduate.
In 1987, Acosta obtained a Master of Arts in Public Affairs with Distinction
(International Relations and Political Studies concentration) from Indiana University of
Pennsylvania. As a scholar of the East West Center in 1994, he was presented a Doctor
of Philosophy in Political Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He also
attended special programs such as Leaders in Development Program (1999) and
Environmental Economics (2002) at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard
University. In 2004, he was recognized as a World Fellow of Yale University making him
the first Filipino to do so.
He started in the Committee on International Economic Policy of Representative
Ramon Bagatsing as a staff researcher in 1989. In 1995, he was also a project director
of the Bukidnon Integrated Network of Home Industries, In. (BHNI), which is a non-
governmental organization involved in Grameen Banking. Acosta is the co-founder of
the Northern Bukidnon Community College; a school which primarily caters the Lumad
(indigenous) students and scholars. He is also a member of the Board of the Cagayan
de Oro College.
Acosta educated as teacher and scholastic expert in Xavier University - Ateneo
de Cagayan, University of the Philippines Diliman and the Bukidnon State University
from 1992 to 1998. He was additionally a scholarly speaker at the School of
Government of Ateneo de Manila University and at the Department of Political Science
of De La Salle University, encouraging alumni understudies on open approach and the
Philippine advancement experience. In the interim, he keeps on living his ecological
promotion through his participations in the Boards of the Earth Council of the
Philippines, and the PATH Foundation Philippines, Inc. (PFPI) advancing the
coordinated Population, Health and the Environment (PHE) approach. He is likewise a
functioning individual from the Partnership for clean Air, Philippines, and the Founding
Director of E-LEAD (Center for Ecological Governance, Leadership and Development).
Acosta as of late filled in as Lead Convenor of The Philippine Climate Change
Imperative, an activity that means to connect with the private segment in illustration up a
recommendation that will address the issues of environmental change. In 2011, he was
a piece of the Philippine appointment to the 2011 United Nations Climate Change
Conference in Durban, South Africa, which meant to build up another worldwide
arrangement to constrain carbon discharges.
In 2009, Acosta was chosen to keep running under Benigno Aquino III for the
Philippine Senate in the Philippine general decision, 2010 alongside Sonia Roco,
General Danilo Lim, Martin Bautista, Alex Lacson, individual Bukidnon Congressman
Teofisto Guingona III, Muslim harmony advocate Yasmin Busran-Lao, previous
congressperson Serge Osmena, Muntilupa Congressman Ruffy Biazon, previous
representative Ralph Recto, Akbayan congresswoman Risa Hontiveros and previous
representative Franklin Drilon. He in the long run lost.
He initially became provincial board member of Bukidnon from 1995 to 1998. He
also became representative of the First District of Bukidnon Province for 3 consecutive
terms from 1998 to 2007 in Northern Mindanao. He is also Chairman of the Committee
on Ecology and Vice Chairman of the Committees on Science and Technology, Human
Rights and Foreign Relations of the House of Representatives.
He established environmental laws such as the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act,
the Solid Waste Management Act, and the Biodiversity Protection Act. The Clean Air
Act of 1999 has been given various awards such as the Oscar Escobar Environmental
Award and the Citizen's Movement against Pollution Award which both happened in
2002.
He also became the Philippine's representative in many international forums
such as the United Nations Special Assembly on HIV/AIDS and the Asian Forum of
Parliamentarians on Population and Development, positioned as Deputy Secretary
General.
He served as the national chairperson of the Kabataang Liberal ng Pilipinas, the
youth arm of the Liberal Party (Philippines), where he is now Secretary General from
1998 to 2001. He is also at present the Secretary General of the Council of Asian
Liberals and Democrats.
BANLAOI, ROMMEL
Rommel C. Banlaoi was born on April 27, 1970
age 49 today on Philippines. He Graduated Bachelor of
Arts and Master of arts in UP Diliman, and he acquired
his PhD in International relations on Jinan University in
china. As of today he is a lecturer at the International
Studies Dept. of Miriam and mostly known as
Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the
Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism
Research and on some occasions he is a commentator
on newspaper articles, televisions news and radio
stations inside and outside the Philippines.
Banlaoi received many awards such as the
Outstanding Filipino award in 2012, even the Albani Peace Prize Award for Peace
Education where he used his deep involvements on peace education, non-violence
studies and terrorism research. He is even affiliated with many organizations inside and
outside the Philippines like the SEARCCT or the Southeast Asian Regional Center for
Counter-Terrorism which is based in Kuala Lumpur.
He is also an author and published books which involved regional securities,
security sector reforms, civil military relations and international terrorism which consists
of 54 books and three of those were published by De La Salle University.

CAMPOMANES, FLORENCIO
Florencio Campomanes, or also known
as “Campo”, was a Filipino political scientist,
chess organizer and a former FIDE president
(1982-19950). He was born on February 22,
1927 in Manila and died on May 3, 2010 due
to prostate cancer.
Campomanes earned his degree in
Political Science at University of the
Philippines in 1948. He also earned his
masteral in Brown University, Rhode Island in
1951 then undertook his doctoral studies at
Georgetown University in Washington D.C.
For a certain time he was a professor in his
Alma Mater teaching political science to his
students and afterwards he was a presidential aid.
Campomanes and his Passion
Aside from being a political scientist, He was also known as one of the best
players in chess. During his time, he was titled as a National Master strength player and
he frequently attend the Manhattan & Marshall Chess Club when he was staying in
America. When he returned to Manila, he co-founded the Philippine Chess Federation(
PCF) and he affiliated the PCF with FIDE in 1956. In 1956 and 1960 he became the
Philippine National Champion and represented our country at Chess Olympiads for five
times. He really had a passion in playing chess and this make him to helped in
organizing world matches. This made him to be the president of FIDE in 1982 to 1995.
During his term, he turned FIDE into a universal organization that made FIDE to
increase its membership to 50 nations. He then, succeeded as a president of FIDE and
was appointed as emeritus FIDE Honorary President.
Campomanes’ Legal Issue
Though he succeeded in his career and his passion he faced legal issue
during his term. He was convicted by the Philippine Anti-graft court, Sandiganbayan on
February 5, 2003 because of failure to account of government funds in Philippine Sports
Commission (PSC) wherein it amounted to P 12.876 million. As a consequence,
Campomanes was sentenced to have imprisonment in one year and ten months.
Subsequently, he cleared his charges in 2006.

SANTIAGO, MIRIAM DEFENSOR

 Known as the Dragon Lady or the Platinum Lady,
the Tiger Lady, and the most popular the Iron Lady of
Asia
 Born in the city of Ilo-Ilo on June 15, 1945
 Eldest child of Benjamin Defensor and Dimpna
Palma
 Entered Lincoln College (formerly known as
Lincoln School) during kindergarten
 Transferred to La Paz Public Elementary School
when she was Grade 5
 Student editor of the elementary newspaper
 Entered IloIlo National High in 1957 and also
became the school editor
 Graduated from highschool as valedictorian and
awarded as “All-Around-Girl”
 At the age of 16, she entered University of the Philippines (UP Visayas)
 Finished the the curriculum in just 3 ½ years and devoted the final semester for
literature
 Won first prize in the university’s literature competitions
 Graduated cum laude in 1965
 After she graduated, she entered UP College of Law In Quezon City
 Due to her success at UP, she was the first female to win the Ferdinand Marcos
Gold Trophy in debate and first female editor-in-chief of UP’s Law Register
 In 1968, she was also the first female editor-in-chief of Philippine Collegian and
was chosen corps sponsor for UP’s Reserve Officer Training Corps, and later on
won Vinsons Achievement Award for leadership
 Upon her graduation in 1969, she was approached by Secretary of Justice Juan
Ponce Enrile and became his special assistant
 She earned her Master of Laws and Doctor of Juridical Science at University of
Michigan in just 1 ½ years
 In 1971, she married Narciso Santiago
 She took the position of being a special assistant to the Secretary of Justice
 Taught political science at Trinity University of Asia
 She was also a law professor at University of the Philippines- Diliman
 Studied at Oxford University, Harvard University (both law summer schools),
Cambridge University, and The Hague Academy of International Law
 Earned Master of Religious Studies at Maryhill School of Theology
 Served as Legal Officer of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in
Switzerland but resigned afterwards due to her father’s health condition
 Appointed as a judge of the Regional Trial Court by President Ferdinand Marcos
 Became nationally famous when she issued the first decision to rule against
Martial Law
 In 1988, she was appointed by President Corazon Aquino as commissioner of
the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation
 She was awarded by the University of the Philippines as the “Most Outstanding
Alumna in Law”
 She was named as laureate of the Magsaysay Award by the Rockefeller
Foundation
 She was later on promoted as Secretary of Agrarian Reform but due to a
controversial law passed by the Congress and signed by President Corazon
Aquino, she later on resigned
 In 1990, she was awarded by the Girl Scouts of the Philippines, the “Golden
Jubilee Achievement Award” for public service
 In 1991, she was rewarded by the Gintong Ina Awards Foundation, the “Celebrity
Mother Award”
 She ran on the 1992 presidential elections under the People’s Reform Party but
lost the elections
 In 1995, she was elected as senator
 In 2001, she lost again on the re-election
 In 2004, she ran and elected as senator
 In 2010, she ran again as senator and won
 She served as chair mostly of the foreign relations committee and the
constitutional amendments committee during her three terms in the Senate
 In 2011, she was elected as judge of the International Criminal Court
 She became the first Asian from a third-world to be elected as judge
  In 2014, she published a book entitled “Stupid is Forever” and was followed by
“Stupid is Forevermore” since the first book was named as the best-selling book
of 2014
 On the same year, she resigned after being diagnosed to have lung cancer
 In October 2015, she announced that she had an intention to run on the 2016
Philippine presidential elections after her doctors redeemed that her cancer was
‘stable’
 Even though she was a landslide winner in numerous public and private
universities and colleges in the country, she still lost the elections.
 She was entitled “the greatest president we never had” after her lost in the
elections
 In 2016, she was the advisory to the International Law Community
 On September 2016, she died due to lung cancer and later on awarded by the
University of the Philippines as “Distinguished Icon of Legal Excellence and
Public Service”
 On October 2, she was interred beside the tomb of her son, Alexander, at the
Loyola Memorial Park
 In November 2016, she was awarded by the Polytechnic University of the
Philippines as “PUP Online Personality of the Year”

DR. JOSE, LYDIA YU

Lydia Yu-Jose was born on March 27, 1944 and
spent her childhood in Santa Ana, Manila. For her
elementary school, she attended Santa Ana Elementary
School, she then graduated with honors in Felipe G.
Calderon High School. Studied in Far Eastern University
for her undergrad, she graduated with a degree in
education in 1965, and afterwards took teaching at Malate
Catholic School for two years.

In 1967, she was hired at Ateneo de Manila as a graduate

assistant at the Department of Political Science while
simultaneously pursuing her master's degree in history. She eventually shifted
concentrations and instead finished her MA in Political Science and began teaching at
the Ateneo in 1970. Additionally, she was taking classes at the university’s newly
established Japanese Studies Program ostensibly out of boredom with her Political
Science classes, and in 1969, at the suggestion of its director, she applied for and was
awarded a Monbukagakusho scholarship by the Japanese government to study at
the International Christian University, where she stayed until 1971.
In 1989, Yu-Jose was appointed director of the Japanese Studies Program, a
position she held until 1993, then again from 1995 to 1996. The following year, she was
appointed chair of the Department of Political Science, a position she held until 2001.
She also served as director of the Ateneo Center for Asian Studies from 2004 to
2013. She was one of the founders of the Japanese Studies Association in South East
Asia (JSA-ASEAN) in 2004.
Yu-Jose was conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck
Ribbon in 2012, in recognition of her contributions to the development of Japanese
studies as a separate academic discipline in the Philippines, as well as for fostering
understanding between the two countries.
On August 3, 2014, Yu-Jose died after a six-year-long battle with non-Hodgkin
lymphoma.

PUBLICATIONS:
 Basic Nihongo (1992)
 Japan views the Philippines, 1900–1944 (1992)
 International and domestic factors that affected Japanese emigration to the
Philippines (1994)
 The Japanese occupation of the Philippines: a pictorial history (1997; co-
authored with Ricardo T. Jose)
 An annotated bibliography on Philippines-Japan relations, 1935 to 1956 (1998;
co-authored with Ricardo T. Jose)
 Filipinos in Japan and Okinawa, 1880s-1972 (2002)

ARCELLANA, EMERENCIANA YUVIENCO

Dr. Emy Arcellana was born on January 23, 1924 in Corregidor but unfortunately
passed away 7 years ago on December 21, 2012 at the Quezon City Hospital at the age
of 88. She started as an instructor and ended her career as a successful professor.
After finishing her secondary education at Rizal High School, she enrolled at UP
Manila. Her dream was to become a lawyer but her first semester in the College of Law
was disrupted because of World War II and the Japanese invasion.
 At the age of 17, she married Franz Arcellana. Too early for her age it may seem,
but this was for her to escape the dangers of becoming a hostage to the enemy
soldiers. Mr. Franz Arcellana became a National Artist for Literature, he made a review
about his wife’s theatrical work and from that Emy’s mother sensed that Franz really
loves his daughter. After the war, she pursued the Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) at
UP Manila. She juggled her roles as a wife, mother and a university student and just
had to give up her dream in becoming a lawyer. She graduated as a summa cum laude,
obtaining the BA degree and was immediately hired at the University of the Philippines
to teach. Furthermore, she served 60 years as a faculty member of the Department of
Political Science at the University of the Philippines. For several years she was the
dean of the Graduation school in UP Diliman and was part of the Faculty Regent of the
UP Board of Regents for a couple of years.
Mrs. Arcellana received fellowships from the University of Michigan to pursue
Master of Arts in Political Science and at the State University of Iowa to pursue the
Doctor of Philosophy. However, since she wanted to focus and study about the
Philippine politics Mrs. Emy Arcellana finished both degrees in UP instead and was able
to obtain her Ph.D. in Political Science. Her dissertation entitled “The Social and
Political thought of Claro Mayo Recto was successfully published by the National
Research Council of the Philippines in 1981.
Academic organizations she was active in:
 Former president of Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society in UP.
 Former Vice President of Phi Kappa Phi International Honor Society, UP Chapter.
 Founding Chair of the Humanities Division of the NRCP;
 Chair/president of the Asian Center for Comparative Studies in Democracy;
 Founding Executive Secretary of the Philippine Political Science Association;
President of the Philippine Association of University Women, UP Chapter;
 And, for over two decades she was the Trustee of the Philippine Council for
Foreign Relations and President of the UP Faculty Organization

BRILLANTES, ALEX BELLO JR.

Alex Brillantes Jr. is a Filipino political scientist and
an expert of local governance and development
administration. He was the former dean of the University of
the Philippines - National College of Public Administration
and Governance (UP-NCPAG) and an executive director of
the Local Government Academy (LGA) that is under
the Department of the Interior and Local
Government (DILG).

Education
Dr. Brillantes has a Ph.D. and MA in political
science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Master in Public
Administration and A.B. in Political Science from the University of the Philippines
Diliman. He is a university lecturer at the National College of Public Administration and
Governance (NCPAG), University of the Philippines, and President of the Philippine
Society for Public Administration that is affiliated with the Philippine Social Science
Council. Alex is also an active member of the Board of Trustees of the Galing Pook
Foundation, and the Local Government Development Foundation at this very present
time.

Academic Career
He served as NCPAG Dean from 2004 to 2010. He was the former Secretary-
General of the Association of Schools of Public Administration of the Philippines
(ASPAP), and Deputy Secretary General of the Eastern Regional Organization for
Public Administration (EROPA), and the founding member of the Network of Asia
Pacific Schools of Public Administration and Governance (NAPSIPAG). In case it is not
familiar with you, Alex Brillantes served as the Executive Director of the Local
Government Academy (LGA) of the Department of Interior and Local Government
(DILG), and Director of the Center of Local and Regional Governance (CLRG) of the
UP-NCPAG.

He was also the chairman of the Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC). He
had so many appointments and projects that he already completed, one is he was a
Visiting Professor at Kobe University, in Kobe, Japan; Visiting Fellow at Queensland
University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia and Guest Professor at Meiji
University in Tokyo, Japan. He is also a writer and has already written three books, and
even published papers on local government, development administration and civil
society in local and international journals, including Asian Survey, Administrative
Science Quarterly, and Kasarinlan, the Philippine Journal of Public Administration.

DR. CARLOS, CLARITA

Dr. Clarita Carlos is a retired professor at the
Department of Political Science in the University of the
Philippines. She is recognized as a pioneer in Political
Psychology in the country. Aside from being a professor, Dr.
Carlos is also an author of 16 books and has written about
population ageing, litigation, disaster management, elections
and political parties in the Philippines. From 1998-2001, the
National Defense College of the Philippines-- an educational,
training, and research agency of the Philippine government
(NDCP), had Dr. Carlos as its first female president.
Education
 Bachelor’s Degree in Foreign Service (University of the Philippines)
  Master’s Degree in Political Science and Ph.D. in Political Science (University of
the Philippines)
 Post-doctoral of Political Psychology as Fulbright Visiting Fellow
(Cornell University)
 Post-doctoral of Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis as Senior Fulbright
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Career
1988-1998-- Dr. Carlos worked in the Senate of the Philippines for ten years as a
consultant and (Also a Consultant to the Local Government Development Foundation
since 1993 and different governments such as the Metro Manila Development Authority,
National Strategy Formulation Project of the Office of the President, the Office of the
Prime Minister, Foreign Service Institute, and Bureau of Customs)and academic
institutions (the Development Academy of the Philippines and UP Graduate School).
1994-1995—A Maximo Kalaw Professor of Peace and Environment (University of the
Philippines)
1996-1996—An Elpidio Quirino Professor of International Relations (University of the
Philippines)
1998-2001—A President of the National Defense College of the Philippines
Works
In her 73 years of existence, Dr. Carlos managed to publish 16 works in 37
publications in 2 languages and has a 162 library holdings.
1) Elections in the Philippines from pre-colonial period to the present
2) History of electoral reforms in the Philippines: pre-Spanish to 1998
3) A chronicle of the 1998 elections in the Philippines
4) Selected election cases in the Philippines: from the Supreme Court and electoral
tribunals
5) The Philippines in ASEAN: an assessment of 27 years of cooperation in selected
functional areas
6) Electoral reforms in the Philippines: issues and challenges
7) Democratic deficits in the Philippines: what is to be done?
8) Towards bureaucratic reform: issues and challenges
9) The political psychology of intolerance: the continuing search for independent
variables
10) Handbook of political parties and elections in the Philippines
11) The Links between Organized Crime and Terrorism: The Philippines and the Abu
Sayyaf
12) Brunei in ASEAN: problems and prospects
13) A reader on local political institute
14) Population ageing in the Philippines: issues and challenges
15) Dynamics of political parties in the Philippines
16) Political parties in the Philippines from 1900 to the present
 DR. ABUEVA, JOSE
VELOSO
Fulll name: Jose Veloso Abeuva
Birthplace: Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines
Parents: Teodoro Abueva & Purificacion “Nena”
Veloso Abueva
Siblings: Teodoro Veloso Abueva Jr., Purificacion
“Neny” Abueva, Napoleon Aubeva, Amelia Martinez,
Teresita Floro, and Antonio Abueva
Education: A.B. or Bachelor’s Degree (Arts-Law, cum laude) - University of the
Philippines
Master’s Degree in Public Administration (MPA) & PhD in Political Science - University
of Michigan
 Political Scientist, Author, Editor and Co-author
 A Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public Administration
 1969-1970 - he was a visiting Professor of Political Science at the City
University of New York (1966-1967) and in Yale University.
 1971 - Secretary of the Philippine Constitutional Convention
 1989-1990 - Chairman of the Legislative-Executive Military Bases Council
 1987-1993 - Former President of University of the Philippines
 1990-1991 - Chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman
 2001 – founded Kalayaan College alongside his colleagues
As an author, co-author and editor some of works include:
As an author and co-author:
1. “Focus in the Barrio: The Foundation of the Philippine Community Development
Program”
2. “Reinventing UP as the National University: Learning for Truth, Leadership, and
Social Transformation”
3. “Towards a Federal Republic of the Philippines with a Parliamentary
Government by 2010: A Draft Constitution”
4. “Charter Change for Good Governance: Towards a Federal Republic of the
Philippines with a Parliamentary Government”
5. “Ramon Magsaysay: A Political Biography”
6. “Ang Filipino sa Siglo 21.”
As an editor:
1. The 20-volume “PAMANA: The UP Anthology of Filipino Socio-Political Thought
since 1872”
 2. “Handbook of Philippine Public Administration”
3. “The Post-EDSA Vice-Presidency, Congress, and Judiciary: Self Assessments
and Alternative Assessments”
Some of his awards:
 1962 - “TOYM” Award (in Political Science) by Philippine Junior Chamber of
Commerce (JAYCEES)
 1968 - Distinguished Scholar Award of the University of the Philippines (the first
year this ward was given under U.P. President Carlos P. Romulo)
 1976 - Most Outstanding Alumnus in the Social Sciences at the University of the
Philippines, by the U.P. Alumni Association
 1987 - Most Outstanding Professional Achievement Award in Social Science, Pi
Gamma Mu International Honor Society in Social Science, U.P. Alpha Chapte
 1990 - Award of Recognition by the U.S. Big Ten Universities Alumni
Associations
 1994-1995 - Gawad bilang pagkilala sa kanyang pagtataguyod at pamumuno sa
pagpaunlad, paggamit at pagpalaganap sa Filipino ang Wikang Pambansa

DR. TEEHANKEE, JULIO

EDUCATION:
 Completed his Doctorate in Development Studies (with
distinction) in De La Salle University (DLSU)
 Completed his Bachelor's Degree Major in Political
Science also in DLSU
 Earned his master's degree in Political Science from the
University of the Philippines (UP)
 Completed his Postdoctoral Studies at the Graduate
Schools of Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo

WORKS:
 Served as Chair of the Political Science Department (1994-1997 and 2001-2007)
 Japan Foundation Faculty Development Grantee at Ibaraki University, Japan
(July 1995-July 1996)
 Served as PPSA Secretary (1995-1999)
 Sumitomo Foundation Research Grantee at the Waseda Institute of Asia Pacific
Studies, Waseda University (2000)
 Fulbright American Studies Fellow at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
(2000)
 Visiting Fellow at the Japan Institute for International Affairs (2002)
 Japan Foundation Fellow at the Graduate School of Law and Politics, University
of Tokyo (September 2007-June 2008)
  Chair of the International Studies Department (2008-2013)
 Previously Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA)
President from (2009-2011)
 Served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts (2013-2017)
 Formerly Editor of the Asia Pacific Social Science Review
 One of the Convenors of the Peace and Human Security in Asia (PAHSA)
network
 Serves as the Regional Manager for Northeast and Southeast Asia of the
Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project
 Associate Editor of the Philippine Political Science Journal
 Currently Executive Secretary of APISA
 Full Professor and Research Fellow of Political Science and International Studies
at DLSU, Manila
 Currently the President of the Philippine Political Science Association (PPSA)

He specializes in the comparative analysis of politics and development in

East and Southeast Asia. He focuses on particular issues about popular
participation, governance, democratization, and contested institutions. Ha has
published accounts about elections, party politics, and political dynasties. His
current research includes presidentialism in Asia; comparative constitutional
dynamics in East and Southeast Asia; and the post-crisis development
architecture.

MIRANDA, FELIPE
Professor Miranda earned his B.A. Political
Science degree from Brandeis University in 1963 and
later did graduate work at the University of Chicago and
so continued his M.A. Political Science, 1968 and was
a Ph.D. candidate in the same year. He is a keen
student of politics and feels equally comfortable
vigorously chasing it on the streets, leisurely exploring
it in university’s classrooms, or wilfully unmasking it in
the nation’s darkest corridors of power. For the better
part of five decades, this intimate exposure to his object
of fascination has convinced him of one thing: that
where politics is the problem, it, too, must nurture the
solution.
Miranda Felipe is known as a/an:
 Emeritus professor at the University of the Philippines
 Former chairperson of its Department of Political Science
 Past president of the Philippine Political Science Association
 Founding vice president of Social Weather Stations
 Founding president of Pulse Asia Inc.
  Columnist in The Philippine Star.
Office Address:
Room __, Department of Political Science Silangang Palma, Africa Street University of
the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City 1101

MAGNO, ALEXANDER
Professor Alex Magno is a Filipino political scientist
and academician. He has a degree in Bachelor of Arts in
Political Science, a graduate from the University of the
Philippines dating way back in 1975. He then earned his
master’s degree in Political Science from the same
university in 1981.
Academe
Alexander Magno is a faculty member in the Univeristy of
the Philippines, Diliman – specifically in the Department of
Political Science of the College of Social Sciences and
Philosophy. From 1994 to 1997, he was the Executive Director of the University of the
Philippines Third World Studies Center and in 1985 to 1988, he served as a Consultant
at the United Nations University located at Tokyo, Japan.

Government Service
 Director of the Development Bank of the Philippines
 Appointed by former President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo
 Member of Consultative Commission for Charter Change
 Special Adviser (1996-1988)
 House of Representatives
 Consultant (1996-1998)
 Department of Finance (1996-1998)
 Peace Process at the Office of the Executive Secretary (1996)
 Philippine Senate (1988-1998)
Media
 Editorial Columnist
o Manila Standard
o Abante
o Philippine Star
 Contributing Columnist
o Asian Wall Street Journal
 Editor of the Nation in Crisis
o Publication of UP in 1984

Organizational Affiliations
 Commissioner
o EDSA People Power Commission
 President
o Foundation for Economic Freedom
 Member (1998 – 2001)
o Board of Directors of Steelasia
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