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ixTHE CONTRIBUTORS(in alphabetical order according to names as they are spelt)A snapshot of the contributors in their own words is provided here (information as of December 2012)Ambeth R. Ocampo is a public historian with a research interest in the late 19 th century Philippines: its art, itsculture, and the people who figured in the birth of the nation. Ocampo is an associate professor in theDepartment of History, Ateneo de Manila University, a lecturer at the Department of Filipino and PhilippineLiterature, University of the Philippines (Diliman), and Regent of the Universidad de Manila. He served aschairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (2005 - 2007) and chairman of the NationalHistorical Commission of the Philippines (2002 - 2011). He writes a widely-read editorial page column for thePhilippines Daily Inquirer and moderates a growing Facebook fan page. His 16 th book, Chulalongkorn’sElephants: the Philippines in Southeast Asian History, is a compilation of essays written during his API fellowship.Aroon Puritat is a graduate of the Department of Architecture, Silpakorn University, Thailand, in 1997. Anarchitect and an artist, his work involves the merging of ideas from the worlds of art and architecture.Alinaya Sybilla L. Fabros (Aya Fabros) is a Filipino researcher whose areas of interest include the sociology ofwork and global labor, urban sociology, ethnography, and democratization and social movements. She has anM.A. in sociology and a B.Sc. in economics. She has written, edited and co-edited several publications on politicaleconomy, globalization, local politics and governance in the Philippines and social movements.Benigno C. Balgos (Ninoy) heads the Research, Knowledge Exchange and Management (RKEM) unit of theCenter for Disaster Preparedness, the Philippines, and teaches at the University of the Philippines. He also servesas a community-based disaster risk reduction and management specialist in a project run by the JapaneseInternational Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Philippines government. Ninoy has been involved in researchprojects with development agencies such as the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia andthe Pacific (UNESCAP), AusAID, The Asia Foundation, Plan International, the Institute of DevelopmentStudies, and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center. He is interested in comparative analysis of the Philippinesand Indonesia vis-a-vis disasters, climate change, social protection, and risk-financing.Claire Bongsalo Lacdao is a proud Igorot (the collective name of several Austronesian ethnic groups in thePhilippines from the Cordillera Administrative Region of Luzon: she belongs to the Kankanaey subgroup). Shehas been a paralegal and community coordinator for the Legal Assistance Center for Indigenous Filipinos(PANLIPI), Cordillera branch office, since 2002. As an indigenous human rights worker, she has assisted victimsof human rights abuses who are mostly members of indigenous cultural communities, and has been involved innumerous cases involving arbitrary arrests, detention, and false charges lodged against indigenous leaders andadvocates, ordinary civilians, and activists. She has been extensively involved in research and policy advocacy onindigenous representation on decision-making bodies, and on recognition of indigenous justice systems in thePhilippines. She is an avid traveler and a voracious reader.Dante G. Simbulan, Jr. is a professor at the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, De La Salle HealthSciences Institute, the Philippines. He trained as a basic neurophysiologist in Japan (Nagoya University), and hastaken his passion for brain science into the field of the mind-body connection, by learning hatha yoga training andconducting research on the mindfulness traditions of Asia.Dianto Bachriadi is scholar-activist and researcher at the Agrarian Resource Center (ARC) in Indonesia. He isalso a member of the Expert Council of the Consortium for Agrarian Reform (KPA) of Indonesia. His researchinterests include the politics of land deals, agrarian transformations, and rural social movements. His publishedworks include, among others: Palm Oil: The Green Gold Changes Indonesia (ARC Books, in-press for 2013),Land Concentration and Land Reform in Indonesia: Interpreting Agricultural Census Data 1963 – 2003The Work of the 2010/2011 API Fellows

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