Prof. Manuel J. De Vera

Executive Director

TeaM Energy Center for Bridging Leadership

Asian Institute of Management

 

 

Professor Manuel J. De Vera is on the core faculty of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM). He teaches Negotiations and Leadership in the Master in Development Management program. He graduated from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government with a Master in Public Administration, and was educated on the evaluation of social programs by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab of the Department of Economics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This year, Prof. De Vera was part of the Harvard Business School's Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning. 
 
Prof. De Vera has published papers for the Asian Development Bank, Economics Policy Paper Journal and served as contributing editor for Business Focus writing articles on key economic issues of the Philippines, such as the anti-trust law, deregulation and privatization. In 2011, he received a scholarship from the Central European University and Tiri Integrity School to study Leadership and Management for Business Integrity in Emerging Markets and in 2012, was selected as a Salzburg Global Fellow under the Freeman Foundation. 

Prof. De Vera is currently the Executive Director of the AIM TeaM Energy Center for Bridging Leadership, an endowed institution established in 2004, with the vision of "a society without divides." The Center has been working towards this vision by developing leaders, primarily through the cultivation, in both theory and practice, of the Bridging Leadership Framework as an appropriate and effective leadership approach for addressing societal divides in Mindanao, the Philippines, and the Asian region.