ASST. PROF. EDCEL IBARRA

Edcel Ibarra is an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines Diliman, and the managing editor of the Philippine Political Science Journal. He is also Young Leader and US-Philippines Alliance Next Generation Leader at the Pacific Forum. In 2025, he was an exchange scholar at the Study of the US Institutes for Scholars on US Foreign Policy at the University of Delaware sponsored by the US Department of State. Edcel was previously the officer-in-charge of the Strategic, Territorial, and Maritime Issues Section of the Foreign Service Institute, the in-house think tank of the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs. In 2024, he was awarded the Aileen San Pablo Baviera Prize by the Graduate Research and Development Network on Asian Security at the Australian National University. Edcel obtained his master’s in international studies and bachelor’s in political science, magna cum laude, from the University of the Philippines Diliman.

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