MARITES D. VITUG

Marites Dañguilan Vitug, a leading Filipino investigative journalist and author, is editor-at-large for Rappler. She writes on foreign affairs, security, and politics. She has written nine books, the latest of which is Unrequited Love: Duterte’s Embrace of China co-written with Camille Elemia—which was shortlisted for the 2026 National Book Award. Before that, she wrote Rock Solid: How the Philippines Won its Maritime Case against China. It won the National Book Award and was translated into Vietnamese. Marites is among the contributors to the 2026 book, “Beyond Geopolitics: The Philippines in the New Marcos Era,” published by ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute; the 2021 book, “Maritime Issues and Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific,” published by Palgrave/Macmillan; and the 1998 book, “The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia,” published by Routledge. Her articles have been published in Foreign Affairs, Raisina Files, Nikkei Asia, among others. Marites has a degree in A.B. Broadcast Communication from the University of the Philippines and a diploma in world politics from the London School of Economics. She was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University and a recipient of fellowships from the University of San Diego in California—the Pacific Leadership Fellow; the Rockefeller Foundation Writing Fellowship in Bellagio Center, Lago di Como, Italy; the International House in Tokyo—the Asia Leadership Fellow Program; the Australian National University, University of Kyoto and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.

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