Dr. Michael A. Tumanut teaches research methods and local government courses. His areas of interest include decentralization, intergovernmental relations, institutionalism, local democracy, and local government structural reforms, particularly municipal consolidation, province division, sister cities, metropolitan arrangement, and inter-local cooperation. He currently serves as the director of the NCPAG Publications Office, and editor-in-chief of the Philippine Journal of Public Administration. He holds a PhD (Kobe University), master’s degrees in Political Science (Kobe University) and Public Policy (Australian National University).
