I democratise
revolutionary thinking

Strategic consultant, institutional disruptor, and Founder/CEO of Uncommon Future Press — transforming how knowledge and power move through the world.

My career has taken me from Cambridge lecture halls to UN assemblies, from diplomatic tables in Shanghai to startup accelerators in London.

But wherever I am, whoever I'm working with, my manifesto remains the same:
I democratise revolutionary thinking.

Holographic Thinking

While others are busy debating breadth vs depth, generalists vs specialists, I see the depth in breadth and the specificity in the general, a rare prismatic and fractal sort of thinking that has benefitted me across domains. This thinking style has allowed me to write funny political metafiction in one breath, and technical economic modelling in another.

I have access to what recurs or is self-similar across domains — I recognize recursiveness. What repeats with variation. What wears new masks but shares an underlying logic. Where others see disconnected problems or discrete jurisdictions, I see the same underlying architecture wearing different masks. And I pounce on it.

CORE POSITIONING

Intellectual Sovereignty

I founded a new discipline at Cambridge University: "Law and the Challenge of Weird Fringe Things". This field investigates how techno-futuristic experiments are systematically destabilizing the foundational categories upon which law depends. From seasteading communities declaring oceanic sovereignty to AI systems claiming personhood, from plant-object cyborgs confounding sentience frameworks to de-extinction projects redefining death itself. I see trends in tech, and see how they alter the fundamental axioms that govern reality.

Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, my PhD research examines whether these techno-utopian experiments represent escapist fantasies or ontological laboratories for future governance. I investigate how "futuristic" scales — oceanic, virtual, planetary — stretch the sociolegal limits of Earth and reimagine the subjecthood of mortal humans within it.
I’m less interested in studying the future, and more interested in designing its underlying logic.

Uncommon Future Press Flagship:
Building the Next Gutenberg Press

I also build things.
After looking at how Weird Fringe Tech break foundational legal categories, I thought: why not break some foundational categories myself? As Founder/CEO of Uncommon Future Press,
I'm building the overdue upgrade to how knowledge moves through civilization.

Academic publishing hasn't meaningfully evolved since 1440. We're still trapped by the legacy of linear text as the only "scalable" format for rigorous thought. Voice, image, gesture, emotion — excluded not because they lacked merit, but because they couldn’t be flattened, typeset, or run through a press. UFP provides that 600-year upgrade.

We transform paywalled journal articles into cinematic multimedia experiences — visual essays, narrative animations, immersive design-led books. Think Netflix for academic research, but designed as public media that pays knowledge workers fairly and reaches communities traditional academia abandons.

This is not a tweak to academic publishing. Tweaks have limited power. We need a replacement. We don't just disrupt oligopolies — we create entirely new cultural infrastructure for how insight moves from ivory towers to the people who need it most. We are privileged to be building the future of human knowledge transmission itself.

Choose Your Entry Point

Two ways in, depending on the challenge you're holding.

Building New Realities

For founders, architects, and visionaries building the next thing

Style can impede, but also revolutionize, how we encounter one another from small scales to planetary ones.

Challenging Broken Systems

For advocates, changemakers, or expert outsiders who’ve had enough

The Methodology

However varied in style and disposition, my work is preoccupied with relationality —with rearranging social reality and reconstructing "form", be that legal, literary, or otherwise.

Whether I’m negotiating international agreements, designing alternative economic models, or building UFP's knowledge transmission infrastructure,

the through-line is consistent:

Choose Your Entry Point

Two ways in, depending on the challenge you're holding.

Building New Realities

For founders, architects, and visionaries building the next thing

Challenging Broken Systems

For advocates, changemakers, or expert outsiders who’ve had enough

The Methodology

Style can impede, but also revolutionize, how we encounter one another from small scales to planetary ones.

However varied in style and disposition, my work is preoccupied with relationality —with rearranging social reality and reconstructing "form", be that legal, literary, or otherwise.

Whether I’m negotiating international agreements, designing alternative economic models, or building UFP's knowledge transmission infrastructure,

the through-line is consistent:

I see patterns others miss

I build bridges others
can't imagine

I make the impossible
feel inevitable

Selective Collaboration

I work with visionaries who understand that the most elegant intervention is often seeing a problem differently. Sometimes that means building something entirely new. Sometimes it means strategically dismantling what no longer serves.

I'm available for strategic collaboration with people working on challenges that require new ways of seeing.

If you're building something the world needs but doesn't yet understand,
or fighting systems that need fundamental transformation rather than incremental reform,

we should explore what becomes possible when conventional thinking gives way to architectural vision

Expertise Stacks

  • Academic Foundation & Authority

    Gates Cambridge Scholar

    Selected by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for outstanding academic ability, leadership qualities, and commitment to improving lives globally.

    Legal Philosophy Pioneer

    My PhD develops "Pure Sovereignty" theory and the "hermeneutics of presence" methodology, examining how techno-utopian communities construct legitimate authority through self-ratification rather than external validation.

    Curriculum Designer

    "Law and the Challenge of Weird Fringe Things" is the only course of its kind globally, exploring robot legal subjecthood, blockchain democracy, ocean jurisdictions, and outer space settlements.

    Research Focus

    How emerging technologies create ontological crises for law across life/death boundaries, sentience/agency definitions, reality/virtuality collapses, and temporal/spatial sovereignty claims.

  • Recognition & Global Platforms

    Literary Recognition

    Won the Carlos Palanca Memorial Award (Filipino equivalent of Pulitzer Prize) for work now included as required reading in the Southeast Asian literary canon.

    Academic Honors

    Top 100 Trailblazing Queer Alumni of Cambridge University, joining luminaries like Sir Ian McKellen, Tilda Swinton, and Stephen Fry. Philip Lake II Award recipient for consecutive years.

    Visionary Leadership

    Most Visionary Media Publishing CEO (Global CEO Excellence Awards). The Master's Gift from Baroness Sally Morgan, a Labour MP passionate about education reform.

    Speaking Platforms

    Chair and session organizer at the Royal Geographical Society. Featured speaker at LSE Alumni Career Events. Regular presenter at UN assemblies, academic conferences, and diplomatic forums.

  • Diplomatic Background & Global Scale

    Economic Diplomat

    Led diplomatic delegations across Shanghai, Washington D.C., New York, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore, and other economic hubs, managing international finance portfolios worth billions.

    Multilateral Negotiations

    Brokered equity linkages with the World Bank-IMF, Asian Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Co-managed the 51st ADB Annual Meeting, attracting 3,800 attendees globally.

    Policy Innovation

    Authored macroeconomic frameworks including "Heterodox Approaches to Climate Finance," "Post-War Financial Strategy for Rebuilding Marawi," and strategic reviews of bilateral agreements with major economic powers.

    Current Advisory Role

    Provides strategic counsel to a confidential Global South entity on outer space policy, training negotiators to enhance bargaining power in global space governance discussions.