Aileen Baviera

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Aileen Baviera (2016)

Aileen SP Baviera (born August 26, 1959 - March 21, 2020 in Manila , Philippines ) was a Filipino political scientist and sinologist . She was one of the leading China experts in her country.

Career

In October 1979 she received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service , cum laude, from the University of the Philippines . As a foreign student for modern Chinese history at the University of Beijing , she was allowed to conduct research in China for the first time from 1981 to 1983. She learned the Chinese language, received a diploma from the Beijing Language Institute, and traveled the north and west of the country. In 1987, Baviera received a Master of Arts in Asian Studies, specializing in China and East Asia. In 2003 he received a doctorate in political science.

From 1980 to 1986 she worked as a researcher and trainer in the Foreign Service Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Until 1990 she taught at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of the Philippines and then until 1993 as a research coordinator at the Philippine-China Development Resource Center . From June 1993 to May 1998 Baviera was director of the Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies at the Foreign Service Institute and taught at the same time at the Faculty of Political Science at Ateneo de Manila University from 1996 to 1997 .

From June 1998 to December 2001, Baviera was Executive Director of the Philippine-China Development Resource Center and at the same time was Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines Asian Center until June 2005 . From September 2003 to October 2009 she was also the dean of the Asian Center . From July 2005 she was Full Professor and from July 2010 Editor-in-Chief for Asian Politics & Policy at the Policy Studies Organization in Washington, DC Most recently, she was President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation .

Baviera died in the early morning of March 21, 2020 in the San Lazaro Hospital in Manila of pneumonia caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. She had returned from Paris on March 12 , where she had become infected as a participant in a congress.

Publications (selection)

  • Contemporary Political Attitudes and Behavior of the Chinese in Metro Manila , 1994.
  • Regional Security in East Asia: Challenges to Cooperation and Community Building , 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rappler: UP professor, China expert Aileen Baviera dies of coronavirus , March 21, 2020 , accessed on March 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Rappler: Aileen Baviera, 60: Her eyes were on China, her heart stayed with PH , March 21, 2020 , accessed on March 21, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c University of the Philippines: Aileen Baviera , accessed March 21, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Baviera, Aileen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baviera, Aileen SP
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino political scientist and sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1959
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2020
Place of death Manila , Philippines