Christopher Nex Benas is presently a research associate at the Leibniz Center for Science and Society, working alongside colleagues at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW). He was previously the senior academic associate at the Ateneo School of Government and a professorial lecturer in the departments of political science and educational management of De La Salle University - Manila. Nex Bengson holds degrees from the University of the Philippines Diliman, the School of Public Policy of Central European University, and the University of Oxford.