Ed is both an academic and a practitioner with over 30 years-experience in academia and government. He holds a PhD Degree in Public Policy from Indiana University-Bloomington on a Fulbright PhD Scholarship with Elinor Ostrom (2009 Nobel Laureate in Economics) as his supervisor.
As an academic, he specialises in the study of mechanisms for collective action. He has published in Nature Human Behavior, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Governance, Policy Sciences, Policy and Society, World Development, Environmental Science and Policy, Cities, Land Use Policy, Telecommunications Policy, Water Resources Research, Nature Water, among others. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University and held fellowships at the research centers of 3 Nobel Laureates in Economics (Coase, Ostrom, Stigler). He received the Ostrom Prize for the Governance of the Commons, a Fulbright PhD award, and a Presidential Award for Outstanding Overseas Filipinos. His work has been cited by the President of the National University of Singapore. He was consistently ranked in the top 2% of most cited scholars worldwide in a study by Stanford University.
As a practitioner, Ed has a large and active portfolio of government advisory, consultancy, executive education and media engagement. He has undertaken 20 consultancy projects for the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, UNDP, Microsoft, Amazon, General Electric, Huawei, Apple, Garena, national and local governments and NGOs. He has also lectured in more than 300 Executive Education Programs for more than 7,000 government officials - Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Directors, City Commissioners and Mayors, NGO leaders, CEOs of multinationals and ranking military officers - from more than 50 countries throughout Asia, Russia, and Africa. He has engaged with the BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Foreign Affairs, China Daily, Al Jazeera, Washington Post, Voice of America, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Straits Times, Channel News Asia. He has written op-eds for South China Morning Post, Straits Times, China Daily, Hindu Times, Brookings, Project Syndicate, Business World (Manila), Bangkok Post, Jakarta Post, among others.
At LKYSPP, he served as Vice Dean for Research and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Co-director of the Institute of Water Policy. He helped set up the Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy in Kazakhstan, the Golkar Institute School of Government and Public Policy in Indonesia and the Africa School of Governance. He has extensively taught at the Academy for Developing Administrative Leaders in Saudi Arabia. He served in three editorial boards, is co-editor of the Cambridge University Press, Associate Editor at Oxford University Press, Editor (Special Content) of World Development and peer reviewer for many journals. He was Co-director of the Institute of Water Policy (2016-2022), Vice Chairman of the Asia Pacific Water Forum, Member of the Executive Committee of the International Public Policy Association and leads the AI, Digital Technologies and Public Policy at LKYSPP.
He has taught 14 core and elective modules at LKYSPP for the MPP, MPA, MPM and PhD programmes including policy analysis, public management, AI, digital technologies and public policy, public finance, research methods, politics and policy, program evaluation, water policy and institutional analysis. He was faculty associate at the Ostrom Workshop in Indiana University Bloomington, visiting fellow at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and faculty associate with the Ronald Coase Institute.
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