Officers & Board Members
2020-2021
Skilty C. Labastilla
President
Skilty is Instructor at Ateneo de Manila University’s Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Research Associate at the Institute of Philippine Culture. Since 2001, he has been involved in policy research on governance, children and youth, gender and masculinities, and housing and informal settlements.
Gideon Lasco
Vice-President for Luzon
Gideon is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines Diliman, and Research Fellow at the Development Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University. His research interests include human stature, drug use, ethnomedicine, health systems, and the politics of health.

Romeo J. Toring, Jr.
Vice-President for Visayas
Meong is Instructor at the Department of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Sciences of the Visayas State University in Baybay City, Leyte. He finished his bachelor's degree in Philosophy at San Carlos Seminary College, Cebu City, and his Masters's degree at the University of San Carlos, Cebu City. His research interests include culture, history, philosophy, and the digital landscape.

Rosalinda C. Tomas
Vice-President for Mindanao
Ago is Associate Professor and currently the Chairperson of the Anthropology Department at the Ateneo de Davao University. Her research interests and engagements focus on the environment and resource management, disasters and climate change, indigenous education and ancestral domain management.
Zona H.S. Amper
Treasurer
Zona is Full Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Sociology and History of the University of San Carlos in Cebu. Her research interests are aligned with the Anthropology of development specifically on impacts of globalization on local knowledge and practices in agricultural, coastal, slum, ethnic, and small island communities.
Marjury E. Dino
Secretary
Marj is faculty member of the Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and History and a research associate of the Center for Social Research and Education at the University of San Carlos. Her research interests include anthropology of development, globalization, peasant studies, community development, and indigenous knowledge.
Ma. Arve B. Bañez
Board Member
Arve is Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines Visayas and a PhD Candidate in Development Studies at the Ateneo de Davao University. Her research interests include artisanal fishing, women in fisheries, local ecological knowledge, and issues in qualitative educational research.

Eulalio R. Guieb III
Board Member

Nota F. Magno
Board Member

Padmapani L. Perez
Board Member

Josefina Soccoro Tondo
Board Member
Daniel SG Yeoh
Board Member
Daniel is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the School of Arts and Social Sciences (SASS), Monash University Malaysia. He is an urban anthropologist with research interests in Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. He is currently the Deputy Head of SASS (Research).

Cynthia N. Zayas
Board Member
Chim is retired Professor and currently Professorial Lecturer at the University of the Philippines Center for International Studies (UPCIS). She is a maritime anthropologist who specializes in Indigenous/local knowledge and cultures of disaster. Her field studies are in the Philippines and Japan. She was also former UPCIS Director and former chair of Philippine Social Science Council.
Jessie G. Varquez, Jr.
Ex-Oficio - Executive Director
Jessie is faculty member at the Behavioral Sciences Department of the De La Salle University in Manila. His research broadly explores human-environment relations and livelihood strategies. Currently, he is studying human-dried fish relations while pursuing graduate studies at the University of Manitoba in Canada. He has been involved in UGAT since 2009.
Maria F. Mangahas
Ex-Oficio - Aghamtao Editor
Maria is Professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman Department of Anthropology. Her fieldwork has been on coastal and small-scale fishing communities (Batanes and Samal Island). She has also investigated the phenomenon of digitized 'scandals' and media piracy, as well as the history of Philippine anthropology. She was President of UGAT in 2014-2017.