Javad (Richard) is a global columnist, academic and policy adviser. Currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Philippines, Asian Center, Richard was formerly a Research Fellow at National Chengchi University in Taiwan, and has delivered lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, among others. Richard writes a weekly column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, serves as a TV Host at OneNews/TV5 network, and has written for the world’s leading publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs, and is a regular contributor to Aljazeera English, Nikkei Asian Review, South China Morning Post , and the Straits Times. As a political scientist, Richard regularly contributes to the Journal of Democracy, major think tanks in US, Europe and Asia, and has also also authored books such as "The Rise of Duterte" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and “The Indo-Pacific: Trump, China, and the New Global Struggle for Mastery” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). I also host 2 podcasts. Richard is a Jardine scholar.