Ed has 16 years experience in teaching, research, consulting and development management in Asia. He received his PhD in Public Policy from Indiana University-Bloomington on a Fulbright PhD Scholarship. His research interest focuses on the political economy of institutions in developing countries in Asia particularly property rights, decentralisation, regulation, public bureaucracies, foreign aid, and common pool resources. His dissertation on the study of institutions for collective action was one of the three finalists in the best dissertation prize of the International Society for New Institutional Economics. His research on institutions has also earned him a Fulbright PhD Award, Ronald Coase Institute Fellowship, George Stigler Center Fellowship, a US National Science Foundation Research Grant, International Water Management Institute research grant, and scholarship from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis-Indiana University. He has published in top tiered journals such as the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, World Development, Policy Sciences, Governance, Policy and Society, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, the World Bank Working Papers Series and a number of articles in edited volumes.

Ed is a member of the International Society for New Institutional Economics and sits in the editorial board of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, the top ranked journal in its field and Water Alternatives, a new journal on the political economy of water  institutions. Since 2002, Ed maintains an active consulting practice with the Asian Development Bank, Japan Bank for International Cooperation and the World Bank where he has worked as a development economist, institutions/governance specialist, community development specialist and evaluation specialist.  From 1990 to 1997, he was a field staff/project manager of an ADB-funded rural development project in the Philippines working with local and national governments, NGOs and grassroots organizations.  He has lectured / chaired executive education programs attended by at least 500 mid-career and senior public officials from 27 countries throughout Asia and Africa for clients such as ADB, UNDP, JICA and several Ministries from Singapore. He has also taught at Indiana University, University of the Philippines and Ateneo University and is a faculty member of the Coase Institute. Ed has served as a resource person for public affairs programs of Aljazeera TV and Channel News Asia. At LKY-SPP, he teaches Public Management and Leadership, Frameworks for Public Policy, and Institutional Analysis and Design.