Julio C. Teehankee

Julio C. Teehankee

Julio Cabral Teehankee
Dean	College of Liberal Arts, De La Salle University, Manila
Affiliations	Executive Secretary, Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA);Regional Manager, for Northeast and Southeast Asia, Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem); Associate Editor, Philippine Political Science Journal (PPSJ)

Julio Cabral Teehankee is a Filipino political scientist. He is a Full Professor of Political Science and International Studies at De La Salle University (DLSU). In 2013, he was appointed Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at DLSU. He previously served as Chair of the International Studies Department (2008-2013); and, Chair of the Political Science Department (1994-1997; 2001-2007).

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 of institutional politics and development in East and Southeast Asia, with particular focus on elections, party politics, democratization and governance. He has written and published papers on elections, party politics, and political dynasties in the Philippines and Japan.

His current research include presidentialism in Asia; comparative constitutional dynamics in East and Southeast Asia; and the post-crisis development architecture. He has appeared regularly on media as a political analyst.

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.

Julio Teehankee finished 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 both his doctorate degree in Development Studies (with distinction in 2001) and his bachelor's degree major in Political Science (1988) 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.