Dr. Chester B. CabalzaPresident and Founder of International Development and Security Cooperation
PROF. DR. CHESTER B. CABALZA is the President and Founder of the International Development and Security Cooperation. Formerly the Executive Fellow at the Council of Fellows and previously the Vice President for the Centre of Research and Strategic Studies at the Development Academy of the Philippines. He teaches in the graduate school at the University of the Philippines Department of
Anthropology in Diliman. Considered as the "father of security anthropology" in the country having written a dissertation about the discourse and published a number of scholastic papers merging anthropology and security.
Formerly the youngest Module Director, Associate Professor; and briefly headed the offices of Academics, Registrar and Public Information of the National Defence College of the Philippines. He still advises and sits for thesis panel in NDCP and AFP Command General Staff College.
He was a consultant of the Japan International Cooperation Agency and still a Reviewer of the Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
A Fellow of the People's Liberation Army, College of Defence Studies, National Defence University in Beijing, China; the U.S. Department of State's Study of the U.S. Institutes on National Security and Policymaking under the stewardship of the University of Delaware; and the Philippine Council for Foreign Relations. He was conferred with eligibility through the Presidential Decree 997 as Scientific and Technological Specialist or Scientist of the Department of Science and Technology.
He has published in peer-reviewed local and international journals in the purview of Security Studies presenting his papers or headed a delegation in Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Estonia, Finland, Spain, India, China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Dubai, Qatar, United States, France, The Netherlands, and all the ten Southeast Asian countries.
A recipient of the CHED Faculty Development Scholarship and the Angara Scholarship awards in UP Diliman and the Southeast Asian Regional Exchange Program by the Japan Foundation. He won the IFSSO International Prize for the Social Sciences Award for his legal propositions to amend the anti-terrorism law in the Philippines. He is interviewed for and by local and foreign media, as security analyst, for his insights and commentaries on the South China Sea, Regional Terrorism, and related security issues.
