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.
