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Juan Romeo Nereus Olaivar Acosta, popularly known as Nereus Acosta, is a politician, academician, and political scientist in the Philippines. He is a member of the Philippine House of Representatives, representing the first district of the province of Bukidnon since 1998.

Early life

Acosta was born on May 14, 1966 in Phillips, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon.

Acosta studied at Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary School in Phillips, Bukidnon, graduating valedictorian in 1979. He studied in Xavier University during high school, graduating first honors in 1981.

Acosta earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of the Philippines in 1986, and attended the UP College of Law but did not graduate.

Acosta obtained a Master of Arts in International Relations and Political Studies from Indiana University in Pennsylvania in 1987. He was conferred a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from the University of Hawaii, as a scholar of the East West Center, in 1994.

Academic, research, and consultancy

Acosta started as a staff researcher in the Committee on International Economic Policy of Representative Ramon Bagatsing in 1989. He was project director of the Bukidnon Integrated Network of Home Industries, Inc. (BINHI), a non-governmental organization involved in Grameen banking, in 1995.

Acosta taught as professor and academic consultant in Xavier University, University of the Philippines and the Bukidnon State College from 1992 to 1998. He is currently a professorial lecturer in the School of Government of Ateneo de Manila University.

Political life

Acosta first ran and won as a provincial board member of Bukidnon from 1995 to 1998. He ran and won a seat as Representative of the First District of Bukidnon from 1998 up to the present.

He was the principal author of the Clean Air Act of 1999.

He is the national chairperson of the Kabataang Liberal ng Pilipinas, the youth arm of the Liberal Party (Philippines).

Authorship

Acosta co-authored a book entitled The Philippine Political Culture (View from Inside the Halls of Power), and has written several articles on Philippine politics and good governance.

Private life

Acosta is married to Carina Chotirawe, a full-time professor at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.


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