Nico Ravanilla

Nico is an Associate Professor at UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. Before coming to UCSD, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. He received his Joint PhD in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of Michigan. His research uses natural and field experiments to evaluate policies that improve political selection, democratic accountability, and governance in developing democracies, with special focus on the Indo-Pacific, Southeast Asia and the Philippines.