Carolina G. Hernandez is Founding President and Vice Chair of the Institute for Strategic and Development Studies (ISDS Philippines). She is also Professor Emeritus in Political Science, University of the Philippines (Diliman) where she taught in 1964 until her retirement in 2006. A founding member of key regional track-two mechanisms including the ASEAN Institutes of Strategic and International Studies (ASEAN-ISIS), Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), Council for Asia-Europe Cooperation (CAEC), Asia-Pacific Security Forum (APSF), and Human Rights Resource Center (HRRC), she has also served in the boards of various regional and global institutions, including the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters which she chaired in 2009, Global Centre on the Responsibility to Protect, Global Development Network, Governing Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), and the Multi-Sectoral Advisory Board of the Philippine Army’s Transformation Roadmap (PA-MSAB). She also served in the Global Agenda Council (on Failed and Failing States as well as Human Rights) of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and was a member of the Global Reflection Group on the Monopoly for the Use of Force supported by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.