Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Dean of the School of Social Sciences of the Ateneo de Manila University. She obtained her doctoral degree in Sociology from Universitaet Bielefeld in Germany, her M.A. in Population Science from Peking University in the People’s Republic of China, and her B.A. in Sociology from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. 

As an experienced scholar working across academic and applied contexts, her research on knowledge mobilization in social development, the built environment, and responsible consumption and production aims at promoting a problem-solving mode in social science engagement and the intelligent popularization of social issues. 

Her professional responsibilities included being Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Director of the  Institute of Philippine Culture, President of the Philippine Sociological Society, President of the Women’s Studies Association of the Philippines, Vice President of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Science and Technology of the International Sociological Association, and Chair of the Technical Panel for the Social Sciences and Communication of the Philippine Commission on Higher Education.