NEIL PANCHO

He is a faculty member of the Department of Political Science and History of Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU) in the Philippines. He teaches Philippine Political Parties and Social Movements, and Philippine Public Administration. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Philippine Political Science Association (PPSA), 2017-2019. His commitment to the practical application of his academic knowledge is evident in his fieldwork, which took him to Mindanao, He conducted validation work for “Outstanding Filipinos” of the Metrobank Foundation. A program dedicated to Filipino nationals who excel in public service. His previous research focused on women in violent extremist (VE) groups, covering formerly volatile places of the southern Philippines in 2020. His research contributions are also incorporated into the book, “Electoral Dynamics in the Philippines: Money Politics, Patronage and Clientelism at the Grassroots,” published by NUS Press in Singapore in 2019. His latest article on CSOs was published in 2022 by Ateneo de Manila University Press, “Transfiguring Mindanao: A Mindanao Reader”. The voluminous, multi-authored book won the Best Book in Social Sciences award in 2023. In July of 2025, the Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, invited him to deliver a paper, “A Capo Rules a City: A Case of Rodrigo Duterte.” His latest project is on Surigao gold, an archaeological find accidentally discovered in 1981, and a portion of the finds is available at the Ayala Museum and Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas Museum.

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