Ferth Vandensteen Manaysay

Ferth Vandensteen Manaysay is Project and Partnerships Manager at Yayasan Peta Bencana (Disaster Map Foundation), a Southeast Asia-based non-profit organization, where he has been co-supervising the development and replication of social media-powered and crowd-sourced infrastructures for community-based disaster response from Indonesia to the Philippines. Aside from working as Assistant Research Consultant for the Asia Foundation’s Coalitions for Change (CfC) Program, he is also Teaching Associate for the Master in Public Management (MPM) Program of the Ateneo School of Government. He has recently been appointed as the Representative of Young People from Disaster-Stricken and/or Conflict-Affected Areas to the United Nations Youth Advisory Board (UNYAB) Philippines. Previously, he was selected as one of the Academic Fellows on Global Environmental Issues and Natural Resource Management under the East-West Center and Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI). He earned his Master’s degree in International Relations under the Future Leaders Program for Regional Governance and Cooperation in Asia from the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. His research interests on Southeast Asia include environmental politics, disaster management, civil society and social movements, and security studies.