JC Punongbayan is Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines School of Economics (UPSE). He earned his PhD in Economics from the UPSE in 2021, where he also graduated summa cum laude and valedictorian in 2009 and was awarded the José Encarnación Jr. Award for Excellence in Economics and the Gerardo P. Sicat Award for Best Undergraduate Thesis. He writes a weekly economics column for Rappler. He was named one of The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) for 2023 by JCI Philippines and the TOYM Foundation. His first book, False Nostalgia: The Marcos “Golden Age” Myths and How to Debunk Them, was published by the Ateneo de Manila University Press in 2023.
