Julio S. Amador III

Julio S. Amador III is Executive Director of the Philippine-American Educational Foundation (Fulbright Commission in the Philippines), Interim President of the Foundation for the National Interest, and Founder and Trustee of the non-profit FACTS Asia. He regularly participates in Tracks 1.5 and 2 meetings and occasionally writes on national security and foreign affairs for various publications. Mr. Amador was a civil servant in the Philippine Government for more than a decade and worked on foreign affairs and national security issues. He was a Fulbright Graduate Scholar at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, an Asia Studies Visiting Fellow and EWC-Korea Foundation Visiting Scholar at the East-West Center in Washington DC, and a Senior Fellow of the Philippine Public Safety College.  Mr. Amador has published peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and op-eds/commentaries in on-line news media. He has a chapter, co-authored with Deryk Baladjay titled “Course Correction from Over-Militarization: National Security from the Duterte to the Marcos Jr. Administrations” in the book, “Games, Changes and Fears: The Philippines from Duterte to Marcos” (ISEAS, 2024). He co-edited the book “A Handbook on Philippine Public Diplomacy” (DFA 2015) and co-authored the monograph “Reviewing Philippine-US Bilateral Defense Relations: The Legal, Military, and Diplomacy Perspectives” (NDCP, 2020). Mr. Amador continues to be deeply involved in designing executive education programs on foreign affairs and national security for defense, military, and private training and education institutions and serves as resource person on these issues.