About the Contributors

Jose T. Almonte is Presidential Security Adviser and Director-General of the National Security Council of the Republic of the Philippines. He retired as brigadier-general from the Armed Forces of the Philippines in 1986 with a Distinguished Conduct Star for Gallantry while serving with the Philippine contingent to Vietnam from 1966 to 1969.

Rene P. Ciria-Cruz is Editor-in-Chief of Filipinas magazine. In the 1980s he edited the news magazine Katipunan, based in Berkeley, California.

Emmanuel S. de Dios is Professor in the School of Economics at the University of the PhilippinesñDiliman.

Paul D. Hutchcroft is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of WisconsinñMadison. In 1995ñ96 he was based in the Philippines on a Fulbright-Hays research fellowship. Professor Hutchcroft has written extensively on Philippine politics and political economy, and is the author of Booty Capitalism: The Politics of Banking in the Philippines (Cornell, 1998). His current research examines central-local government relations in the Philippines in historical and comparative perspectives.

Solita Collas-Monsod is Professor at the School of Economics of the University of the Philippines and Chairperson of the Human Development Network. She is also a member of the United Nations Committee on Development Planning and serves on the board of the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Advisory Board of the UNDP Human Development Report. She is a former Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning for the Philippines.

Steven Rood has been at the University of the Philippines in Baguio City, where he is now Professor of Political Science, since 1981. He is also a Policy and Indicators Measurement Specialist with the Associates in Rural Development, Inc. on the Governance and Local Democracy Project, a project of technical assistance to local governments in the Philippines funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

David G. Timberman is a consultant and writer specializing on Southeast Asian affairs and democratic development. Currently, he serves as a consultant to the Asia Societyís Policy program and to the Asia program of the National Democratic Institute (NDI). He has held staff positions with the Asia Society, the Asia Foundation, and the National Endowment for Democracy.

Mona Lisa Yuchengco is the founding publisher of Filipinas, the premier Filipino American monthly magazine. She is also Chairman and Executive Director of Philippine International Aid, which sponsors aid programs for street children in the Philippines.