South East Asia

Marlon de Luna Era, IACD Regional Trustee for Southeast Asia. Dr. Marlon de Luna Era is an Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology and Behavioral Sciences De La Salle University, Manila. He has an M.S. in Human Settlements Development (Urban Planning and Environmental Management) from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; and a Ph.D. on Development Studies at De La Salle University-Manila. Marlon has extensive teaching and professional experiences in disaster resilience, solid waste management, community development, gender and local governance. Marlon had worked with the Philippine Department of Social Welfare and Development as Social Welfare Program Specialist for six years and served as Community Development Manager of a Resettlement Project with more than 300 family victims of Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1991.

He was Program Associate of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) in Thailand, as Operations Manager of the Corporate Network for Disaster Response (CNDR) in the Philippines. He is the President of the Local Governance Training and Research Institution-Philippine Network, Board Member of the Philippine Sociological Society, Executive Vice President of the Solid Waste Management Association of the Philippines and Chairperson of the Board of the Values Orientation in Classroom Education (VOICE). He is doing community engagement project on solid waste and composting as President of Dolce Vita Homeowners Association in Binan City, Philippines.