Jose David Lapuz
José David Lápuz is one of the 45 member-commissioners of the UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines, on the Committee of Social and Human Sciences and is a member of the UNESCO Advisory Committee on Human Rights and Poverty based in Paris. He also teaches international relations and political science at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.Career
Lapuz received his bachelor's degree at the University of the Philippines and his post-graduate studies in International Politics and Foreign Policy at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He started teaching at the University of Santo Tomas in 1970.
José David Lapuz attended and read papers before the Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, the American Political Science Association in Washington, D.C. and the International Studies Association of New York. He lectured in the following schools: Eastern Washington University, Harvard, East Carolina University, UCLA, and the University of London, L.S.E., Glasgow University and Oxford University. He has also lectured at the Leningrad State University, now St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; and the then USSR Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow. He also delivered formal lectures at the Humboldt Universitat Zu Berlin in Berlin, Germany.
In 1999 José David Lapuz was first appointed as United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization commissioner to the Committee on Social and Human Sciences and in 2002 he was re-appointed for a further three-year term.
In March 2009, President Arroyo appointed José Lápuz as Presidential Consultant. By November 2009, he was appointed as commissioner / board member of the National Historical Institute.
In March 2017, Lapuz was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as Presidential Consultant for Education and International Organization under the Office of the President. He was Duterte's political science professor at the Lyceum of the Philippines University in the 1960s. Earlier, in 2016, President Duterte had expressed his intent to appoint Lapuz as the Chairperson of the Commission on Higher Education. However, this was met with criticism due to an alleged plagiarism committed by Lapuz, as well as questions on qualification as raised by his former students.
