RANDOLPH PARCASIO is a legal practitioner, consultant, peace advocate and human rights lawyer. He was executive secretary of ARMM from 1996 to 2001, administrator and board member of the Southern Philippines Development Authority (SPDA) in 2001. He served as consultant of several international development and aid agencies, was engaged in the drafting of the ARMM administrative code and its implementing rules and regulations. He was a participant in the Tripartite GPH-OIC-MNLF drafting of a legislative proposal to amend RA 9054 and fully implement the provisions of the 1996 Final Peace Agreement. Presently, he is a consultant to the ARMM.

ANWAR MALANG is a human rights lawyer, politician, and advocate of peace and autonomy. He was executive secretary of the ARMM prior to his current appointment as regional secretary of the DILG-ARMM. In 2001, he was elected councilor of Cotabato City and served as minority floor leader and later as majority floor leader in the city’s legislative council. He ran again for office in 2004 and 2007, won in both occasions, and continued his platform of empowering barangays. He continues to push for the rights to self-determination of the Moro people and influence them to value education as a way to rebuild strife-torn communities. He is an alumnus of the Bridging Leadership program of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM).

AMINA RASUL-BERNARDO is a peace and human rights advocate and president of the Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID). Her engagements encompasses public policy and governance, research and project management, spanning a wide array of expertise that includes children, youth and women, poverty alleviation and promotion of literacy. She obtained a Mid-Career Program Masters in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) at the Harvard University as a Mason fellow, Masters in Business Management at the Asian Institute of Management. She finished a Bachelor of Arts degree, major in Economics from the University of the Philippines.