Antonio Tujan Jr., a social activist working on Philippine and international issues for more than 40 years, is the co-chair of the BetterAid Open CSO Platform on Aid Effectiveness. He helped found the IBON Foundation in 1978 and currently serves as its director for international development. He also is the chairman of the Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN), a network of more than 50 major research NGOs in the Asia Pacific, and a member of the Advisory Group of the United Nations Development Cooperation Forum. He is former global chairperson and current Asia Pacific chairperson of Reality of the Aid Network. Tujan has written about food sovereignty, globalization and related issues in a variety of publications.