Non-Resident Research Fellows

 
Atty. Michael Henry Ll. Yusingco is a non-resident research fellow at the Ateneo School of Government. He is also a Lecturer at the Institute of Law, School of Law and Governance of the University of Asia and the Pacific. Atty. Yusingco previously worked as a Consultant to the Office of Senator Koko Pimentel. Atty. Yusingco is also a contributor in various Philippine newspapers, such as on the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Rappler, MindaNews, The Daily Guardian, Philippine Times, Sun Star Cebu, Asian Currents, Asia Times, Channel News Asia, and East Asia Forum.
 
Atty. Yusingco finished his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University, and his Bachelor of Laws from Arellano University School of Law. He also obtained a Master’s degree in Law and Development from the University of Melbourne Law School.
 
 

 
Jude B. Ocampo is a Philippine attorney specializing in tax and corporate law. He holds a Master of Laws degree from Harvard University and a Master of Business Administration degree (Finance and Supply Chain Management) from the UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. He is a graduate of, and a former lecturer at, the University of the Philippines College of Law.
 
A corporate and tax lawyer with 15 years of experience in the Philippines and abroad, he was a tax lawyer at Sycip Gorres Velayo & Co. (Ernst & Young Philippines), an international tax director with Ernst & Young (Hungary), a tax principal at KPMG Manabat San Agustin & Co. (Philippines), and a partner in the tax and legal department of Deloitte (Commonwealth of Independent States). He was most recently a regional tax director and deputy head of regional tax of DFDI, an international law firm focusing on high-growth Asian markets. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, international corporate structuring, and international tax. Jude has assisted a number of global and ASEAN multinationals in multi-jurisdictional reorganizations. He also served in the Philippine government. From 2004 to 2005, he was Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs of the Republic’s Trade and Industry Department and Finance Department.
 

Reina Reyes is a full-time professor at the Department of Physics of the Ateneo de Manila University. She is also a non-resident research fellow at the Ateneo School of Government. She obtained her PhD in Astrophysics from Princeton University. She also holds a diploma in High Energy Physics from Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics in Italy. Dr. Reinabelle Reyes is also formerly a postdoctoral research fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago.
 
 

 
Edilberto de Jesus, Professor Emeritus, served as the president of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) from 2009 to 2012. Prior to this appointment, he was president of the University of the Cordilleras in Baguio City (2008–2009). He accepted a concurrent appointment as Presidential Adviser on Rural Development in the Aquino Cabinet in 1988 while serving as Deputy Commissioner in the Peace Commission. He returned to AIM in 1992 as Associate Dean for Research (1992–1995), leading the team that established the AIM Policy Forum, and serving as its first Chair. He then served as president of Far Eastern University (FEU) in Manila in 1995. From 1995 to 2002, he served on the boards of the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU) and the Coordinating Council for Private Educational Associations. In 2002, he was appointed Secretary of Education before serving as Secretariat Director (2005–2007) of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) in Bangkok. Dr. de Jesús completed his Master of Philosophy and PhD in History at Yale University. He graduated cum laude from the BA Honors Course in the Humanities of Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU). AdMU, FEU, and Xavier University Cagayan de Oro have conferred on him a PhD in the Humanities, Honoris Causa.
 

 
Ms. Olfindo is a consultant in the Social Protection and Labor Global Practice of the World Bank in Washington, DC. Formerly, she was an economist in a Tokyo-based development consulting firm, consultant in Asian Development Bank, and staff in the Philippines’ National Economic and Development Authority. She holds a master’s degree in economics from University of the Philippines and a master in public administration in international development from Harvard University.
 

 
Nadia Doytch is an Associate Professor of Economics at CUNY Brooklyn College, Koppelman School of Business, where she teaches International Trade, Microeconomics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Sustainability Theory and serves as the Economics Department Graduate Deputy Chair. Nadia also holds an Associate Professor appointment at the Ph.D. Program in Economics at CUNY Graduate Center and a Non-Resident Research Fellowship at Ateneo de Manila University School of Government (ASoG) in Manila, The Philippines. Nadia’s fields of research are: International Economics, Development Economics, Energy and Environmental Economics. Her work has appeared/ is forthcoming in Energy Economics, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of International Money and Finance, International Review of Economics and Finance, Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, Children and Youth Services Review, Economic Systems, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Journal of Asian Economics, Borsa Istanbul Review, Post-Communist Economies, Comparative Economic Studies, Eastern Economic Journal, Applied Economics Letters, the Springer Rethinking International Development Series and others. Nadia currently advises graduate student research in International Economics, and Environmental and Development Economics.

EITAN PAUL
Expertise: Civil Society and Social Accountability in Southeast Asia
 
Eitan Paul is a Graduate Student Instructor at the Department of Political Science of University of Michigan. He is currently taking is PhD in Public Policy and Political Science at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy in the same university. His fields of research are Civil Society and Social Accountability in Southeast Asia, Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance in the Global South, Political Economy of Development, and Democratization and Electoral Authoritarianism. He worked as a researcher at the Asia Foundation in Dili, Timor-Leste, and at the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Princeton in Asia Fellow at the National Democratic Institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and as a Program Associate at Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs in Washington, DC.

He obtained his Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from Fletcher School, Tufts University and his Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service major in International Politics (Honors) from Walsh School of Foreign Service in Georgetown University.