Professor,
Department of Sociology
University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
Tel/ Fax: 63 2 924 6670
E-mail: randolf@pacific.net.ph
public.lives@gmail.com
Or
Res: No 17, Gomburza St.,
U.P. Campus, Dilman, Quezon City Philippines
A well-respected media figure in the Philippines, he is Professor at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City where he teaches graduate courses in social theory and political economy. He is a founding director of the Third World Studies Center and maintains a second career in media writing a column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Philippines’ leading daily. Randy is also host to one of the longest-running public affairs talk show on Philippine television, Public Forum (renamed Public Life).
Former editor of the journal Kasarinlan, he trained in sociology at UP and the University of Manchester in England. A former chair of BISIG, he serves on the board of various non-government organizations.
Among his published works are Public Lives: Essays on Selfhood and Social Solidarity.