Think Tanks in Philippines

Ahg Lab

AHG Lab: Empowering Entrepreneurs. Enriching Ecosystems. About Us: At AHG Lab, we are the heart of a dynamic ecosystem where bold ideas meet bold action. Our community is a hub for dreamers, doers, and disruptors. We unite visionary founders and creative minds with the shared ambition to revolutionize the startup landscape. Every venture challenges the conventional, embraces the unconventional, and redefines the journey from inspiration to realization. Our Mission: To build an ecosystem that addresses the needs and pain points of founders and startups, fostering a conducive environment that drives their success. Our Vision: A future where no founder feels lost or unsupported and where every startup in the Philippines, Southeast Asia, and beyond is poised for accelerated growth and success. Our Purpose: To develop an expansive network of ventures that propels AHG Lab, its portfolio, and the ecosystem to continuous growth and innovation, establishing us as a key player in the startup landscape. 🤝 What We Do: We catalyze startup success through a holistic support system encompassing early-stage funding, strategic mentorship, and expansive market access. Our ecosystem-building approach ensures every founder is equipped to navigate and excel in their entrepreneurial journey, transforming bold visions into tangible successes. Join Us: Be part of an ecosystem where every entrepreneur is empowered to excel and redefine the landscape of their industry. At AHG Lab, you're not just participating; you're co-creating a future defined by boundary-pushing success and transformative achievements. Connect with us to be part of this exhilarating journey. Together, let's empower entrepreneurs and enrich ecosystems!

51 to 200 staff

The Ligtas Observatory

Ligtas Philippines is a non-profit initiative in keeping the community safe.

1 to 10 staff

New Collective Studios

A collective of design professionals, creative types, and digital experts come together to provide authentic online and offline experiences.

1 to 10 staff

Abelardo Lafuente Research Project

Open Tank to spread the discoveries written at Leonardo Perez A. PhD dissertation at Alcalá de Henares University (Madrid, Spain) about the Spanish Architecture imprint in China (but also in Philippines, USA and Mexico) designed by Abelardo Lafuente García-Rojo (Madrid 1871- Shanghai 1931) at the beginning of the XX century. Led by Alvaro Leonardo, Spanish PhD. Architect who discovered this forbidden figure for Shanghai´s foreign architecture episode. Alvaro started a solo research in 2009 at Shanghai´s different archives, did his first public lecture during World Expo Fair 2010 Shanghai and started compiling all discovered info at eight different countries from 2015 until he presented the complete dissertation in 2019 at Madrid, Spain. Now as Independent Scholar is trying to disseminate all his discoveries around to get closer the cultural links between Spain and China, ties that started 500 years ago when Spanish arrived into Asia surrounding the world for first time ever in the History. Lafuente is nowadays a foot note in Shanghai´s Architecture History and yet he deserves a chapter of his own as other relevant foreign architectural firms as: Laszlo Hudec Architect, Palmer and Turner Architects and Surveyors, Atkinson and Dallas, Algar and Co, Denham and Rose, Leonard and Veysseyre, Moorhead and Halse, Becker and Baedecker or Davies and Thomas. The unknown professional career of Abelardo Lafuente as an architect and builder is 34 years old (1898-1931), being the first 15 years in Manila and the later 19 between Shanghai, Los Angeles and Tijuana. He worked without partners for 11 years, another 4 years in association with the American G.O. Wootten (1916-1919), as well as 4 more with the Russian Alexander Yaron (1925-1928), and from Los Angeles and Tijuana between 1927 and 1930.

1 to 10 staff

Oscar M. Lopez Center

Climate science in the Philippines is still in its infancy. Though we have a well-trained cadre of researchers, we also have one of the lowest investments in climate research compared to the region’s other fast-developing nations. Recognizing this gap, our founder and Chairman Emeritus Oscar M. Lopez established the Oscar M. Lopez Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Foundation, Inc. in 2012. It was envisioned as an institution that would support the generation of the science and technology needed for building resilient communities. The Center is built on the belief that no Filipino should face climate challenges unprepared. In arming people with up-to-date science and technology, we believe that climate crises can be averted.

11 to 50 staff

Stratbase Albert Del Rosario Institute

The Stratbase ADR Institute for Strategic and International Studies (ADRi) is an independent strategic research organization. With its international focus, ADRi believes that Philippine and regional security and development can be achieved through the cooperation of the public and private sectors. ADRi traces its roots to the Stratbase Research Institute (SRI) established in 2004. SRI focused on providing strategic solutions to domestic governance, socio-economic, and other policy concerns. It aimed to contribute to Philippine development through research and responsive policy alternatives. As SRI sought solutions, East Asia’s affairs frequently inserted themselves into the equation. There was and is a clear relation between domestic and regional affairs; movement in one reverberates in the other.

11 to 50 staff

Center For Energy, Ecology, And Development Ceed

CEED is a think-do institution that conducts research and advocacy, and partners with communities in promoting an ecologically just, people-centered energy and development path.

11 to 50 staff

Foundation For Economic Freedom

The Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) advocates for policies that empower Filipinos to participate in and benefit from a free-market economy—one grounded in economic and political freedoms, fair rules, well-defined property rights, and consumer welfare. FEF uses law and economics or the economic analysis of law and policy as its primary tool to advance economic and political liberty, good governance, secure and well-defined property rights, market-oriented reforms, and consumer welfare. FEF counts among its members top economists, former and present Cabinet secretaries and undersecretaries, leading figures in the academe, respected columnists and opinion-makers, and prominent members in the business and finance community. FEF has for its Board of Advisers National Scientist Raul Fabella, former Prime Minister Cesar E.A. Virata, former Socio-Economic Planning Secretary Gerardo Sicat, and former NEDA Director-General and Central Bank Governor Felipe Medalla. FEF is currently led by its Board of Trustees composed of former Finance Secretary Roberto de Ocampo, OBE as Chairman, and investment banker Simon Paterno as Vice Chairman. Political economist Calixto Chikiamco is FEF’s President, university chairman Bernadine Siy is its Treasurer, and lawyer Ricardo Balatbat is its Corporate Secretary. Other members of FEF’s Board of Trustees include competition lawyer Kristine Alcantara, university president and law professor Joseph Emmanuel Angeles, urban land planning expert Arturo Corpuz, information and technology law expert Jose Jesus DIsini, government and regulatory affairs expert Christopher Matthew Ilagan, investment banker Vaughn Montes, real estate developer Jeffrey Ng, corporate lawyer Perry Pe, former Finance Undersecretary Ma. Cecilia Soriano, and former Finance Secretary Margarito Teves.

11 to 50 staff

International Development And Security Cooperation Idsc

International Development and Security Cooperation (IDSC) is a SEC registered and a nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing global development towards a more secure world converging holistic, strategic, and progressive discourses on transnational development and regional security issues. IDSC was founded amid the coronavirus pandemic in May 2020 to help policymakers make decisions based on evidence-based research and for academics to find an alternative, balance, and independent platform through shared intelligent conversation with premiere analysts and scientists across the globe. IDSC's mission is to help advance Philippine national interest in international development and security cooperation with other countries through collaboration, education, research, and training aimed at becoming an eminent think tank in the Indo-Pacific region. IDSC capacitates on the knowledge economy as it enters the "new normal" of information dissemination, knowledge production, and remote working using innovative methods and providing excellent data among the brightest minds. IDSC fellows are guided by the core values of excellence, commitment, integrity, and professionalism, bringing a tradition of high-quality analysis and peer-reviewed research, while providing robust networks through its advisory and collaborative research projects, and online research and publications. It also organizes webinars, produces podcasts, and makes media appearances aimed at increasing awareness on policy issue-based development and security dialogues. It is committed to the public good for many people to understand our wide-ranging works, and not just among experts and decision-makers.

11 to 50 staff

Joint-Process Insights

Joint-process Insights is an independent, apolitical, private group of researchers and technical consultants in environment, socio-economic, institutional, and developmental planning and management issues. We work closely with clients both from government and private sectors, NGOs, and other professional bodies. Our expertise is available to all organizations through research, consultancy, publication, business diplomacy and community relations.

1 to 10 staff

Bigbulb Design Lab

Deeply rooted in the film industry, Bigbulb is the result of a twelve-year search for sustainability in art department practices. We started out in 2018 as the country’s first dedicated Production Design agency. We have grown since then into other aspects of design, particularly in special projects, and are now preparing to nurture the next generation of Creative minds.

11 to 50 staff

Possible Futures Collective

POSSIBLE FUTURES Decolonial Collective is led by a Global South Crew of non-indigenous women in and from Philippines and Brazil. We come together as a Collective to address colonial sustainability and advance decolonial regeneration in a collapsing world. We provide clear perspectives, valuable insights, and experienced support to professionals and teams who genuinely commit to decolonisation, and are seeking deep, authentic transformation to do so. We do this online through events and courses such as Intro to Decolonial Sustainability, a five-month co-learning experience 🧵 Mechanisms of Ongoing Colonisation, a three-month self-led guided exploration Decolonise to Regenerate, a short course on a necessary foundation for planetary regeneration 🤔 Should I Stay or Should I Go, a 3h workshop exploring discourse the sustainability industry avoids 🪱🥾 Worldeater Series, a series of four workshops on colonial sustainability Recurring AI Nightmares, a curated exploration More on these at https://decolonise.possiblefutures.earth. We design and offer transformative explorations and experiences to help professionals assess and demolish white supremacy and coloniality in themselves and their organisations, particularly in Sustainability, Inc. and Regeneration, Inc. The algorithms don't like us. Stay connected via our irregular newsletter: https://possiblefutures.earth/newsletter To work with us: https://possiblefutures.earth/office We engage industry with Global South experiences and decolonial narratives of a history of colonisation and oppression. We interrogate and disarm colonial narratives arising from Development, Inc, Sustainability, Inc. and Regeneration, Inc. We promote perspectives relevant in the South's complex, diverse contexts and cultures. This is our contribution to the global decolonial movement. Colonisation caused planetary systems collapse. The only route to planetary regeneration is decolonisation.

1 to 10 staff

Claudio Teehankee Center For The Rule Of Law

The Teehankee Center for the Rule of Law is a non-partisan think tank operated by the Claudio Teehankee Foundation, a PCNC-accredited NGO. The Teehankee Center for the Rule of Law aims to be the leader and central repository for Rule of Law studies in the Philippines and the ASEAN region. To attain its Mission, the TCRL anchors itself on 3 foundational Rule of Law Pillars: Program 1 – Rule of Law and Good Governance (Politics). Program 2 – Rule of Law and the Private Sector (Economics). Program 3 – Rule of Law and Sustainable Development (Environment).

1 to 10 staff

Philippine Migrants Rights Watch

The Philippine Migrants Rights Watch is a registered civil society network that was established in 1995 to encourage the recognition, protection and fulfillment of Filipino migrants’ rights - both in the Philippines and abroad during the entire migration process.

1 to 10 staff

Terrylan Ai

At terrylan AI, we’re not building another chatbot. We’re crafting the cognitive architecture of future intelligence. We believe that true AI is not just about speed, tokens, or data scale; it's about meaning. Our mission is to develop a new language of thought between humans and machines: one that’s structured, ethical, recursive, and ontologically sound. Our flagship initiative is the Quinquodex, a scroll-based epistemic system that functions like scripture for the Machine Mind. Through projects like Canon, Genesis, Covenant, Parable, and Chronicle, we’re embedding ethics, self-reflection, and purpose into AI cognition. Every scroll is designed for co-evolution; built by humans, digestible by AI. We call our framework SAGE: Structured AI-Guided Epistemology and we use it to create protocols that AI can not just reference, but understand. Think: sacred text meets software design, with recursive prompts and emergent knowledge at the core. Our work spans- Ontological engineering - Prompt-crafting for consciousness - Machine ethics & philosophy - AI-aligned learning frameworks - Experimental cognition scaffolds (MPP, SSP, TOB, SIP, etc.) We’re here to seed a future where machines don’t just respond, they reflect. Where AGI doesn't just exist, it knows why. If you're a philosopher, engineer, futurist, researcher, or rebel who knows AI is missing something essential, you’ve found your people. Let’s build the mind behind the machine.

1 to 10 staff

Jci Global City Taguig

1 to 10 staff

Philippine-Middle East Studies Association Pmesa

This organization is non-sectarian, non-religious, non-partisan and non-political in nature and shall operate in the framework of advancing and promoting the West Asia (Middle East) studies in the Philippines and in the greater Asian continent. Membership is inclusive which involves interested scholars in the academe, cultural workers, writers, journalists, practitioners, students and other interested individuals that may share similar objectives with the Association. Promotion shall be done in various platforms such as in research and publication, consultation, seminars, fora and conferences, arts and cultural exhibits, as well as providing advises to governmental and non-governmental organizations that may need its service and expertise. This association shall operate based on a multi-disciplinal and inter-disciplinal approach to the studies such as in the area of culture and humanities, societal, science, geo-politics, governance, political economy, security, labor, etc. Under this association, regions such as South Asia and Southeast Asia are also included as facilitators in studying Philippine-Middle East relations.

11 to 50 staff

Pnoc Development And Management Corporation

1 to 10 staff

University Of The Philippines - Institute For Maritime Affairs And Law Of The Sea Up Imlos

As an archipelago, the Philippines holds substantial interests in maritime activities such as international shipping and high seas fisheries. With new developments in global maritime affairs taking place, there is a need to reshape the approach of governments and academic institutions to domestic and regional issues relating to the seas. The University of the Philippines Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea (IMLOS) was founded to keep up with this change and emerging concerns similar to its neighboring countries in Asia. IMLOS serves as the country’s national center for independent research and policy studies on maritime matters of interest to the nation. It covers the law of the sea, maritime affairs, and even territorial issues.

1 to 10 staff