Editors of Philippine Democracy Online
Menelito Mansueto is a faculty at the Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology. He has taught at the University of Santo Tomas, Far Eastern University - Diliman, and the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Manila. He has a master's degree in philosophy from Holy Name University in Tagbilaran City. He is pursuing his doctorate in Global Justice and Sustainability at the American University of Sovereign Nations. He has published articles in indexed local and international journals. He has presented his research papers in the PHAVISMINDA Conferences, the Social Ethics Society (SES) Conferences, and the International Public Health Ambassador Conference (IPHA). He is a member of the Board of the Social Ethics Society. He has published a book chapter in Ethics in Contemporary Philippine Society. He is also a peer reviewer for various local and international journals. He is a co-author of the newly released book Radical Politics in the Philippines.
Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc is an ASAP Global Justice Program Fellow at Yale University. He is an Associate Professor at the Ateneo de Davao University and a Visiting Lecturer at Silliman University. He is also a Visiting Professor for Global Justice at the American University of Sovereign Nations. He finished his doctorate in philosophy at the University of San Carlos, maxima cum laude, the first ever and highest Latin honor granted by the school. He has a master's degree in Applied Ethics from Linköping University in Sweden and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. He also holds a master's degree in philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University. He graduated AB Philosophy, cum laude, at Ateneo de Davao University. He was trained in Democracy and Governance at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Bonn and Berlin, Germany He was a delegate in the Erasmus Mundus General Assembly in Brussels, Belgium. He has presented papers at Nagoya University and Kumamoto University in Japan, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Perdana University and the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur. He has delivered papers at the Universal Science Education Research Network Congress, the Asian Bioethics Conference, and the International Public Health Ambassador Conferences. He has published more than 90 papers in indexed local and international journals. He has delivered more than 100 talks and public lectures to various schools, including UP Los Banos, the University of San Carlos, Silliman University, De La Salle University, and the University of Santo Tomas. Dr. Maboloc is ranked number 1 for Philosophy in the AD World Scientific Index. A Scholarum Award nominee, he has written more than a hundred social and political commentaries in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He was awarded the Public Intellectual Prize by the Philosophical Association of the Philippines in 2020. He is the author of the book Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte.
