Institute for Popular Democracy
45 Matimtiman cor. Magiting St.,
Teachers' Village, Quezon City, Philippines
Tel: 63 2 921 8049/434 6674 [o]
Tel: 63 2 931 9014 [h]
Mob: 63 917 817 0587
Fax: 63 2 926 2893
E-mail: jmrocamora@ipd.org.ph
Executive Director of the Institute for Popular Democracy in the Philippines, Joel was President of Akbayan (Citizen’s Action Party) and a Fellow of the Transnational Institute in the Netherlands of which he served as its former Co-Director while in exile during the Marcos regime.
After working with TNI, Joel returned to the Philippines in 1992 and worked as a political analyst at the Ateneo Centre for Social Policy and Public Affairs and as a consultant to several development NGOs.
In 1995, he was awarded the ‘Philippines National Book Award’ for his published work, Breaking Through: The Struggle within the Communist Party of the Philippines (Anvil 1994).