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Christopher Ryan Maboloc (SES Chairperson)

 


Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc is an Associate Professor at Ateneo de Davao University. He is a Visiting Professor at Silliman University, and recently, a Visiting Scholar at Lanzhou University in China. He is a Fellow in the ASAP Yale Global Justice Program where he was mentored by the renowned philosopher Thomas Pogge. He earned his doctorate (maxima cum laude) from the University of San Carlos. He holds a master's degree in Applied Ethics jointly from Linköping University in Sweden and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. He obtained an MA in Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University. He finished his Bachelor in Philosophy (cum laude) from Ateneo de Davao University. Additionally, he completed training in democracy and governance at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Bonn and Berlin, Germany. He attended the Erasmus Mundus GA in Brussels, Belgium. He also attended the Global Summer School on Climate Change and Human Mobility at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. He has delivered papers at Nagoya University, Kumamoto University, and Waseda University in Japan, Perdana University and the International Medical University in Malaysia, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Lanzhou University in China, the Yale Global Justice Conference, the Asian Bioethics Conference, and the World Congress of Philosophy at Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. He is ranked as the Most Cited Researcher in the Philippines (2023-25) for the Subfield Philosophy according to the AD Scientific Index. He is the author of Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte. The Question of Justice in Contemporary Liberal Theory, and The Politics of Peace & The Mindanao Problem. He writes commentaries for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and the Cheonji News Dailly in South Korea. He was awarded the Public Intellectual Prize by the Philosophical Association of the Philippines in 2020. He is the Co-Founder and Chairperson of the Social Ethics Society.

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