Dr. Virginia Bacay Watson is a professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her areas of interest and publication include science, technology and security in the Asia-Pacific region, water security, and Southeast Asia geopolitics.
She has held appointments at the University of Denver and Colorado School of Mines, and served as an exchange faculty for the University of Colorado in Beijing, China, as well as a consultant on issues pertaining to water security, science, technology & security, Southeast Asia and the Philippines.
Dr. Watson obtained her bachelor’s degrees in Asian Studies and Management of Financial Institutions from the Philippines. She holds a master’s degree in Asian Studies from Cornell University and a doctorate in International Studies (in the field of comparative politics) in the areas of Public Policy and International Technology Assessment & Management from the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies. She is fluent in Tagalog and Ilonggo and conversant in Japanese and Spanish.
Dr. Watson’s Publications:
- Dr. Watson in QUAD Tech Forum
- Faculty in First Thailand Security Dialogue
- The Security Nexus Webinar | Episode 27: Navigating Tensions in the South China Sea
- Security Nexus Webinar | Episode 15: The Philippines Builds Security, Faces Challenges
- Modernizing US Alliance for Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific
- Hindsight, Insight, Foresight: Thinking about Security in the Indo-Pacific.
- The Post-COVID19 World: Globalization with Different Characteristics
- Five Coronavirus Success Stories: Different, But the Same
- Post-Hague: The Philippines and Strategic Balance
- Dr. Watson contributes chapter to book on emerging technology – Dr. Virginia Bacay-Watson
- Exploring Resource Security Policy and Green Science & Technology in Asia
- APCSS Faculty releases a publication entitle ‘Interface of Science, Technology & Security’
- Two APCSS professors selected to present at Asia Policy Assembly
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