Jose Ma. Luis Montesclaros is Research Fellow with the Centre of Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTS Centre), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he is concurrently Ph.D. Candidate (International Political Economy). He is Co-Investigator of the Project “Enhancing Food Supply Chain Resilience and Food Security in ASEAN with Utilization of Digital Technologies”, where he is conducting an assessment of digital technology adoption in ASEAN agriculture, to serve as a fact-base for future policy development to improve digital technology adoption in agriculture in Southeast Asia, together with the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and the ASEAN Secretariat.
He has conducted policy analysis with dynamic models of food security and climate change, providing inputs to Singapore’s Inter-Ministry Committee on Food Security (IMCFS) in identifying and addressing food security risks. He is First Inventor of the UrbanAgInvest tool (© NTU) tool with Prof Paul Teng (Co-Inventor), for assisting governments to draw investments into their high-tech farming sectors. As consultant, he previously co-authored the World Bank’s ASEAN-Commissioned report, “Bridging the Development Gap: ASEAN Equitable Development Monitor Report 2014”.
He obtained his Master’s in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore as an ASEAN Scholar, and his BS Economics Degree from the University of the Philippines, and was one of the two “Leaders of Tomorrow” representing LKYSPP, NUS at the 44th Saint Gallen Wings of Excellence Awards in 2014 (Switzerland).
