Gerry Arambala, a member of the Board of Directors of the Social Ethics Society, has graduated from the University of San Carlos with a thesis on Thomas Pogge's Poverty Studies for his Masters in Philosophy degree. Mr. Arambala was advised by Dr. Alvin Galeon. He was formerly mentored by the late Dr. Ryan Urbano, who wrote his masters thesis at Linköping University on Thomas Pogge in 2008. Mr. Arambala has published several papers during the course of his studies. He is one of the top academics from Cebu City, having taught at USC, Tabor Hill and the University of Cebu. He was the former chair of the Philosophy Department at La Salle University in Ozamiz City. Mr. Arambala has published a paper on the Capability Approach in the prestigious Asian Journal of Comparative Politics. He is currently teaching at the Mindanao State University in General Santos City.
By Menelito Mansueto (MSU-IIT) Christopher Ryan Maboloc is a Davao-based Filipino scholar known for his work in Social and Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Philippine Democracy, and the Philosophy of Technology. He is an Associate Professor at Ateneo de Davao University and a Visiting Professor at Silliman University. His body of work often engages with topics of social justice, structural inequality, and political ethics, particularly in the context of the Philippines. An Erasmus Mundus scholar, the author was trained in political party building and democratic governance at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Bonn and Berlin, Germany. Dr. Maboloc is the author of two books, Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte and The Question of Justice in Contemporary Liberal Theory. He is the editor of the two-volume Ethics in Contemporary Philippine Society, a collection of essays by Filipino scholars and academics, notably from Mindanao. He also authored several textbooks, including Et...