Nassef Manabilang Adiong—a 2022 Noam Chomsky Global Connections Emerging Scholar Awardee, 2021 recipient of a BTA legislative resolution of commendation, 2020-2022 UP Scientist, 2020 UP Diliman Centennial Professorial Chair, 2018 TOYM honoree, 2017 PUP Professorial Chairholder, and former UP Diliman tenured Associate Professor—is currently the Director of the Bangsamoro Parliament’s Policy Research and Legal Services and Professorial Lecturer at UP Diliman’s Asian Center and Miriam College’s International Studies department.

Dr. Adiong edited five books, namely, The Contemporary World (2023), International Studies in the Philippines: Mapping New Frontiers in Theory and Practice (2020), Islam in International Relations: Politics and Paradigms (2018), Islam and International Relations: Contributions to Theory and Practice (2016), and International Relations and Islam: Diverse Perspectives (2013). He authored Principles and Practice of Moral Governance in the Bangsamoro (2021), The Irony of Systemic Racism in the Global South Academy: How ‘Othering’ Perpetuates the Western Colonisation of Knowledge (2021), The Evolution of Islamic Education in the Philippines (2020), Muslim Governance and Salafi Orthodoxy (2020), Muslim Views of the Polity: Citizenry, Authority, Territoriality, and Sovereignty (2019), Salafiyyah in the Philippines (2019), among others.

Aside from serving as founding Chief Editor of International Journal of Islam in Asia (Brill Publishers), Islam and Global Studies series (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer), International Relations in Southeast Asia series (Routledge), Islam in Southeast Asia series (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer), Islam in the Philippines series (IIUM Press), and Islam and International Relations series (Gerlach Press), Dr. Adiong is the founder of Co-IRIS (International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort) formed in 2012, PHISO (Philippine International Studies Organization) created in 2015, DSRN (Decolonial Studies Research Network) initiated in 2019, and BRLN (Bangsamoro Research and Legal Network) founded in 2022.

Dr. Adiong was a recipient of the Chevening fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies as well as Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia scholarship and TÜBİTAK fellowship as PhD holder in International Relations from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.