SPECIFIC RESEARCH UNDERTAKING

• Paper Presentor, "These are not Imaginary Lines: the Legal Status of Philippine Territorial Borders in International Law", Crossing Borders, Borneo Conference 2007, Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia, 4-5 February 2007.

• Research Assistant, Global Overview of Straddling and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, Marine and Environmental Law Institute, Dalhousie University (October 2004 - May 2005)
• Technical Assistant, Formulation and Development of an Integrated Coastal and Marine Policy Framework, United Nations Development Programme - Government of the Philippines Phase II (August 2003 - August 2004)
• Researcher, Emerging Issues in International Law, UPLC-IILS (October 2003-August 2004)
• Researcher, Philippine Treaty Series, Philippine Treaties Program, UPLC-IILS (September 2003 - August 2004)
• Coordinator, Studies for Defining an Extended Continental Shelf for the Philippines under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Law of the Sea Program, UPLC-IILS (March 2003 - August 2004)
• Coordinator, Legal and Policy Research on the Delineation of the Outer Limits of the Philippine Continental Shelf, UPLC-IILS (March 2003 - August 2004)
• Coordinator, Philippine Maritime and Trade History: Ethnohistorical Antecedents of East Asian Trade, UPLC-IILS (March 2003 - August 2004)
• Technical Assistant, Formulation and Development of an Integrated Coastal and Marine Policy Framework, United Nation Development Programme - Government of the Philippines Phase I (November 2002 - March 2003)
• Research Analyst, West Group Reference Pilot Study, Innodata Philippines, Inc. (June - July 2002)
• Research Assistant, The Legal Treatment of Foreign Direct Investments in the Philippines, UPLC-IILS (February 2001 - April 2002)
• Coordinator, International Law Forum on Children's Rights: The Case of the Child Soldier, UPLC-IILS (October- November 2001)
• Researcher, Studies for Defining an Extended Continental for the Philippines under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, UPLC-IILS (June - October 2001)
• Researcher, The Philippine Claim over Sabah or North Borneo, UPLC-IILS (March - June 2001)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENTS

• Organizer and Moderator, Policy and Technical Issues Relating to the Delineation of the Outer Limits of the Philippine Continental Shelf, UPLC-IILS (December 2003)
• Participant, Second Inter-Ministry Committee UNEP GEF South China Sea Project (Reversing Environmental Degradation Trends in the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand) Philippines (December 2003)
• Resource Person, Regional Consultation Workshops conducted in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, Formulation and Development of an Integrated Coastal and Marine Policy Framework (September - October 2003)
• Moderator, Roundtable Discussion, Policy and Legal Issues on the Philippine Position at the Cancun Ministerial Conference of the WTO, UPLC-IILS (August 2003)
• Participant, Time Before and Time After - Unresolved Issues and New Challenges to the Law of the Sea, International Conference organized by the Hellenic Branch of the International Law Association, Rhodes, Greece (July 2003)
• Moderator and Paper Presentor, Roundtable Discussion on the Philippine Issues on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, UPLC-IILS (July 2003)
• Moderator, Roundtable Discussion, The Studies for an Extended Continental Shelf for the Philippines under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, UPLC-IILS (August 2001)
• Moderator, Roundtable Discussion, The Rights of the Individual in the Infotech Age, UPLC-IILS (August 2001)

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Recipient, International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) and University Postgraduate Award (UPA) [2006 - 2009];
• Recipient, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Marine Scholarship Program (2004 - 2005); Scholar, Eighth Session, Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy, Rhodes, Greece (2003)
• Recipient, Don Pacifico de Ocampo Scholarship Grant, UP College of Law (2000, 2001) Honoree, International Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (1998) Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Scholarship in the Social Sciences, Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society (1998) Recipient, UP Presidential Scholarship and Leadership Grant (1995 - 1998)
• Consistent University and College Scholar, University of the Philippines (1994 - 1998) Second Place, UP Wenceslao Q. Vinzons Debate Classics (1996) Youth Leadership Award for Outstanding Academic and Extra-curricular Performance, Philippine Jaycees (1994)

AFFILIATIONS AND NON-ACADEMIC PURSUITS

• Member, Association of Dalhousie Alumni in the Philippines Member, Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Makati Chapter (March 2003-present)
• Member, Paralegal Volunteers Organization, UP College of Law (1999-2002) Volunteer, National Movement for Free Elections [Namfrel] (2000) Vice-Chairperson, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy Student Council (1997-1998)
• Chairperson, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy Academic Circle (1996-1997)
• Member, College Editors Guild of the Philippines (1996-1998) Founding Member, UP Third World Students Circle (1997)
• Director, Resource Collection (1997-1998) Participant, UP - Meiji-Gakuin University Study Tour Program (1995, 1996, 1997)