Cleo Anne A. Calimbahin is a Professor of Political Science specializing in elections, corruption, and democracy studies in the Department of Political Science and Development Studies at De La Salle University-Manila. She completed her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Fulbright Fellow. Among her publications is 'Mapping the Philippines' Defective Democracy' with Julio Teehankee. Dr. Calimbahin was a Research Associate with RAND, a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Asia Pacific Research Center (APARC), the Global South Scholar in Residence at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, and a Visiting Research Fellow for the Institute for Developing Economies (IDE-Jetro) in Japan.