Professor Thomas Pogge of Yale University will be the mentor of Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc in the ASAP Global Justice Program Fellowship at Yale University. Prof. Pogge is the author of World Poverty and Human Rights. Dr. Maboloc will write his research on structural issues in Muslim Mindanao using the perspectives of Iris Marion Young and Thomas Pogge.
ASAP is an acronym for Academics Stand Against Poverty. According to its website, it utilizes "scholarship to influence policy and public attitudes to poverty. Established in 2010, (ASAP) is a non-partisan, independent global organization aiming to eradicate severe poverty worldwide." It is based in New Haven, Connecticut. It is under the Global Justice Program at Yale.
Fourteen scholars around the world were chosen for the ASAP Program. Pogge is the most prominent scholar on global justice. He proposed the global difference principle as a critique to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. Rawls was Pogge's adviser at Harvard. Dr. Maboloc encountered Pogge's writings while studying under Professor Goran Collste at Linköping University in Sweden.
Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc graduated maxima cum laude for his PhD at the University of San Carlos. He is the author of more than 90 publications in local and international journals. He was awarded the Public Intellectual Prize by the Philosophical Association of the Philippines in 2020. He is the most cited author in the AD Scientific Index for Philosophy in the Philippines.