Julio C. Teehankee | |
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Born | Julio Cabral Teehankee |
Occupation | Educator |
Spouse | Rosa Babel Calilung |
Relatives | Claudio Teehankee (uncle) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | De La Salle University (AB, PhD) University of the Philippines Diliman (MS) |
Julio Cabral Teehankee is a Filipino political scientist and a prominent political analyst focused on Philippine politics and democracy issues. He is full professor of political science and international studies at De La Salle University (DLSU) where he served as chair of the Political Science Department (1994–2007); chair of the International Studies Department (2008–2013); and dean of the College of Liberal Arts (2013–2017). [1]
He continuously aims to bridge theory and practice in academic and other professional endeavors. Aside from teaching and research, he has served as political and policy consultant to government officials, electoral candidates, political parties, national and international organizations.
Teehankee specializes in the comparative analysis and development of East and Southeast Asia, with particular focus on elections, party politics, democratization and governance. He has published papers on elections, party politics, and political dynasties in the Philippines, Japan and Southeast Asia.
He has been cited as one of only four political scientists in the 2015 Webometrics' List of 150 Top Scientists in the Philippines based on Google Scholar citations. His research works have been indexed in Scopus and Web of Science-Social Sciences Citation Index. He was co-editor of Building Inclusive Democracies in ASEAN, a recipient of the 2016 National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) Outstanding Book Award.
Teehankee has been quoted by The New York Times , The Washington Post , and The Economist . His political commentaries have been published by the East Asia Forum, New Mandala, and Asia Dialogue. He has appeared regularly on media as a political analyst.
Julio Teehankee was born to a distinguished family with deep roots in the Philippines. His paternal grandfather, José Tee Han Kee, immigrated to the Philippines in 1901 from Amoy (now Xiamen), China. He was a close associate and friend of Sun Yat-Sen and actively participated in the struggle to liberate China from the Qing (Manchu) dynasty. [2] José Tee Han Kee became the first medical director of the Chinese General Hospital in Manila. He established the Chinese General Hospital School of Nursing in 1921 and founded the Filipino-Chinese Medical Society in 1933. Additionally, he created Farmacia Central, which became the largest prewar drugstore in Manila and a precursor to Mercury Drugstore. [3]
Julio's uncle, Claudio Teehankee, served as the 16th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. His maternal grandfather, Pedro G. Cabral, founded the Laboratorio de P. Cabral in 1923. Julio's aunt, Myrna O. Cabral, became the Mother Superior of the Holy Spirit Adoration Order (also known as the Pink Sisters) in the Philippines. Myrna took the name Sister Mary Hermenegildes and later became the order's Mother Prioress, serving as a spiritual adviser to former president Corazon C. Aquino and Pope John Paul II. [4]
Julio Teehankee completed his elementary education at the Ateneo de Manila University from 1972 to 1980. He attended high school at La Salle Greenhills from 1980 to 1984. He obtained his bachelor's degree majoring in Political Science (1988) and his doctorate degree in Development Studies (with distinction in 2001) from De La Salle University. He earned his master's degree in Political Science (1994) from the University of the Philippines Diliman. From 2007 to 2008, he completed his postdoctoral studies at the Graduate Schools of Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo under a Japan Foundation fellowship.
Julio Teehankee was a visiting fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan in 2020. Previously, he was a visiting fellow at the Philippines Project of the School of Regulation and Global Governance, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University in 2019; at the Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong in 2018; at the Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University in 2015; at the Japan Institute for International Affairs in 2002; a Sumitomo Foundation research grantee at the Waseda Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, Waseda University in 2000; a Fulbright American Studies fellow at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2000; and, a Japan Foundation faculty development grantee at Ibaraki University, Japan from July 1995 to July 1996.
Teehankee has held leadership positions in prominent professional organizations: council member (2019-2021) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA); president (2016-2019) and secretary (1995-1999) of the Philippine Political Science Association (PPSA); president (2009-2011) and executive secretary (2011-2016) of the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA); adviser (since 2016) of the Association of Political Consultants of Asia (APCA); Adviser (since 2017) the Philippine International Studies Organization (PhISO).
He serves as the regional manager for Southeast Asia and the Pacific of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project. V-Dem produces the largest global dataset on democracy with some 28 million data points for 202 countries from 1789 to 2019. Previously, he has served as Country Evaluator for the Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI) reports for 2003 and 2014; and as Country Reporter for 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012. BTI is a 128 country project focusing on the political management of the transformation toward Democracy and a Market Economy.
Teehankee is the associate editor of the Philippine Political Science Journal. He was former editor of the Asia Pacific Social Science Review. He is also a member of the editorial boards of a number of Scopus-indexed academic journals that include: the Asia Pacific Social Science Review, the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, the Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, and Asian Affairs: An American Review.
He is a lifetime member of the Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society, Beta Chapter, Philippines.
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