Augusto Miclat

Director and Co-Founder of the Initiatives for International Dialogue

Augusto (Gus) Miclat Jr. is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Initiatives for International Dialogue, an advocacy and solidarity organization based in the Philippines with campaigns and programs in East Timor, Mindanao and Burma. He is also a former journalist, editor, university lecturer, theatre artist and organizer. He was deeply involved in the broad anti-dictatorship front against Marcos from the late 1970s up to the late 1980s in Mindanao and organized the so-called Middle Forces professionals, lawyers, church people, teachers, journalists, artists, businessmen, politicians. He has been involved in people's diplomacy or international solidarity work since 1985. Gus was a humanities graduate at the Ateneo de Davao University, where he also taught journalism and theatre, among others. He has worked as a Program Officer for the Asia Council for Peoples Culture, as the Executive Editor of the Media-Mindanao News Service, and as a Co-Director at the Initiatives for International Dialogue. He has been an editor and contributor to many books, including: Burma for Beginners (1998), East Timor for Beginners (1997), Primer on Globalization (1997), Breaking the Silence (1995- author), Beyond the Cold War (1992), From Boardroom to the Slums (1990), Out of the Valley of Dry Bones (1990).