Professor Renato Cruz De Castro

Renato Cruz De Castro is a distinguished professor in the Department of International Studies at De La Salle University, Manila. He has published over 100 articles on international relations and security in journals and edited volumes across the Philippines, Asia, Europe, Australia, and the United States. In 2019, the Philippine Political Science Association named him the country's most prolific political scientist by publication output, and the 2022 AD Scientific Index ranked him among the Philippines' top 100 scientists and its number-one political scientist for publications and citations. In December 2024, he received the AFP Sandigan Stakeholder Award for his contributions to regional security research. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina as a Fulbright Scholar (2001), and his B.A. and two master's degrees from the University of the Philippines.