The Philippines, Beijing’s Bullying, and a Forgotten Struggle for Peace

Biographies

‍Dr. Haroro J. Ingram is the country director for the Philippines at USIP. He is responsible for the strategic design, implementation planning, and in-country management of USIP’s Philippines program. Haroro has almost two decades of government, academic and private sector experience. He began his career in government roles ranging from national security operations against non-state threats to strategic-policy in defense preparedness largely focused on managing great power competition in the Asia-Pacific.

Much of his professional experiences since leaving public service in 2014 have involved designing and implementing peace and security programs in conflict-impacted areas and advising on influence operations, particularly strategic communications, across the government and private sectors. Haroro has held academic positions at the Australian National University and George Washington University and has been a visiting scholar at institutions such as the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He has written for publications such as Oxford University Press, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, War on the Rocks, and Foreign Affairs. Haroro is a 2025 Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar.