Joanna Micah Eufemio is a civil servant with almost a decade of experience in policy studies and development management a Raisina Young Fellow and a Pacific Forum Young Leader. She earned her undergraduate degree in public administration with honours from the University of the Philippines. She was a recipient of the Japanese Grant Aid for Human Resource Development Scholarship and earned her masters degree in political science in the field of international cooperation studies from Kobe University. As a scholar she independently conducts research on politics and foreign policy from Manila. The views in this piece are purely her own and do not represent any of her affiliations.
