Eduardo C. Tadem, Ph.D., is Convenor of the Program on Alternative Development of the University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies (UPCIDS AltDev). He retired as Professor of Asian Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman in 2015 where he served as Editor-in-chief of Asian Studies (Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia). He earned his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore, and a Master of Arts in Asian Studies and Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of the Philippines Diliman. He has over 100 publications in books, academic journals, and periodicals. He was President of the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) from 2014-2018, co-convenor of the Asean Civil Society Conference/Asean Peoples’ Forum (ACSC/APF) Philippine National Organizing Committee (2017), and a founding Governing Board Member of the Consortium on Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA).