Visiting Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies
About
AMBETH R. OCAMPO is a public historian whose research covers the 19th-century Philippines—its art, culture, and the people who figure in the birth of the nation.
Professor and former chairman in the Department of History at the Ateneo de Manila University, he writes, “Looking Back,” the longest-running editorial page column on history for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and has published over 35 books, the most recent being: Queridas de Rizal: Looking Back 16 and Yaman: History and Heritage in Philippine Money (shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for History).
He served as president, City College of Manila; president, Philippine Historical Association; co-chair, Manila Historical and Heritage Commission; chairman, National Historical Commission of the Philippines; and chairman, National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
In another life, he was a Benedictine monk known as Dom. Ignacio Maria, OSB. Today, he moderates growing Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube channels.
