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.
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 H...