Aaron Jed Rabena

Aaron Jed Rabena is Assistant Professor at the Asian Center in the University of the Philippines, Visiting Scholar at the Taiwan Center for Security Studies of National Chengchi University, and Fellow at the Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC).   

He had served as Non-Resident Fellow at the Pacific Forum in Hawaii and ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. He was previously an Adviser at the Philippine Department of National Defense (DND) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime – Global Maritime Crime Program (UNODC- GMCP). He is also a Pacific Forum Young Leader and is an alumnus of the East-West Center (EWC), the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) and the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI-APCSS).  

Jed holds a PhD in International Relations from Shandong University in China and has an Executive Education in Risk Management from the Asian Institute of Management (AIM). His areas of interest include Strategic Studies, Greater East Asian Geopolitics and Multilateral Politics, Political Risk, and Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy.