I am an associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, associate at the Center for Global Knowledge Studies at Cambridge University, and affiliate expert at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University. I was a visiting scholar at the Center for Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University. I just obtained my PhD in Political Science and International Studies from the University of Queensland.  I did my doctoral research at the University of Queensland, Australian National University, and Harvard University.

Prior to doing a PhD, I was a consultant at The World Bank and the Philippine House of Representatives, as well as a research associate at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, The University of Hong Kong, and Asian Development Bank Institute.  I also held teaching positions in the Philippines and abroad.

My research interests include international theory, international security, global strategic thought/culture, global political theory, global intellectual history, theories of world order, global governance, ASEAN, Islam, US-China relations, China’s Grand Strategy, and Philippine politics and security relations. My PhD thesis, Global International Theory: Rethinking Order in World Politics, investigates the variegated historical and contemporary conceptions of international order in the Western, Islamic, and Chinese worlds as a way to crystallize, conceptualize and problematize what ‘global international theory’ or ‘global theory’ looks like or might consist of.