Tina Ebro, co-discussant of the ASEM study, is Asia coordinator of the Asia Europe Peoples Forum (AEPF), an independent bi-regional civil society network critically engaging the ASEM. She is based at the Institute for Popular Democracy (IPD) in Manila where she is seconded by the Evangelischer Entwichlungsdienst (EED), a German development agency. During the Marcos dictatorship, she facilitated the formation of popular organizations for the human rights and pro-democracy movement. In the 1990s she coordinated Participating Refugees in Europe (PRIE), a euro-wide participatory project for refugees which advocated for refugee rights and humane asylum policies. She also worked as campaign coordinator of the Xmin Y Solidarity Fund in Amsterdam, consultant to Novib’s Southeast Asia Bureau, and advisor to women’s networks such as the Asian Center for Women's Human Rights (Manila) and the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal (Tokyo and The Hague). Upon her return to the Philippines three years ago, she helped establish a broad popular coalition, Laban ng Masa (Struggle of the People), composed of democratic left formations, sectoral networks, progressive movements and NGOs. She has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of the Philippines and a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.