Prime Ragandang currently serves as the Director of the Office of Research Dissemination at MSU-IIT. He holds a PhD in International Relations from The Australian National University and a doctorate in Sustainable Development Studies from MSU-IIT. He writes on peacebuilding, youth, and memory. His papers are published in Conflict Studies Quarterly, Peacebuilding journal, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Peace Review, and Conflict, Security, and Development journal, among others. In 2021, he co-edited a book on youth, peacebuilding, and sustainability, published through the Young Southeast Asia Leaders Program of the United States Mission to ASEAN.

His forthcoming book chapter titled 'Through the ballads: peace formation as remembering the past,' is published by Edinburgh University Press. His first book, 'Duladula ug Pakigsandurot' (Games and Interaction), has been implemented in several public schools in Northern Mindanao. He is the founder of BHOLI Youth Centre, a youth-led organisation that provides after-school programs to students from Pre-K to 12th grade in Northern Mindanao, Philippines. He is the 2022 Student Volunteer of the Year of the Australian National University. Before joining the academe, he was the Philippines Director for Move This World, a global organisation that advocates for bullying prevention through social emotional learning.