Tony Lambino is a member of the CommGAP team and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. Research interests include political communication, governance reform, public opinion, and citizen engagement. He also provides training and analytical support to CommGAP’s operational portfolio in Asia and Africa. 

Tony worked as Chief Media and Communications Officer for the Office for Regional Development, Office of the President of the Philippines (Manila), news anchor and writer for ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs (Manila), and consultant to the Global Forum for Media Development (London and Amman). He has published original research on Philippine journalism and global media development. He received his M.A. in Communication from Penn, Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School as a Fulbright Scholar and Osmeña Fellow, A.B. in Communication, cum laude, from the Ateneo de Manila University as an Aquino Scholar, and was named one of the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines for 1999.

In a previous life, Tony was a professional singer and songwriter, cutting albums in the Philippines as a solo artist and with the multi-awarded Smokey Mountain, a singing group named after the largest garbage dump in Asia in the 90’s, with a mission to promote social and development issues through popular music. He is married to Trish Panganiban and father-in-training to baby Monica.