Guest of Honor and Speaker's Profile: Clarita R. Carlos, PhD

Dr. Clarita R. Carlos is a distinguished professor of Political Science at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. She has been awarded the Most Outstanding Teacher Award by the University of the Philippines. She has held the Maximo Kalaw Professor of Peace and Environment and the Elpidio Quirino Professor of International Relations. She was the first woman and civilian President of the National Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP).

She has written many books on democratic deficits, towards an ASEAN Parliament, electoral reform, political parties, population ageing, and bureaucratic reform. Her areas of research/expertise are foreign policy, defense, and security.

Dr. Carlos has a PhD in Political Science from UP Diliman. She was a Fullbright Visiting Fellow for Political Psychology at Cornell University and was Senior Fullbright Scholar for Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis at UCLA. Dr. Carlos has been teaching for the past 56 years at the University of the Philippines.