Miko is Web Foundation’s Regional Research Manager for Asia. He has more than ten years of research and development work experience at a progressive pace – from community-based project management to regional development with most of his work rooted mainly in Southeast Asia.

Miko is a graduate of law and accountancy at Holy Name University and holds a masters in business education from the University of San Jose Recoletos and an M.Sc. in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Before joining the Lab, Miko taught for over ten years, served as a monitoring and evaluation specialist for infrastructure governance and local economic development, and managed various open data research projects in the Philippines.