Antonio La Viña

Antonio G. M. La Viña is a Filipino lawyer, educator, and environmental policy expert. He is currently dean of the Ateneo School of Government in Makati City, Philippines. La Viña attended the Ateneo de Manila University, where he graduated in 1980 with a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy. He then taught philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila and Xavier University. He then took up law at the University of the Philippines College of Law, where he finished with a Bachelor of Laws degree, and placed third in the 1989 Philippine Bar Examination. La Viña spent several years as a professor of law at UP in the 1990s, and as a human rights and environmental attorney serving indigenous peoples and other local communities. In 1992, La Viña...