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Until October 2006, RE de Leon was a professor of Development Communication at the University of the Philippines, Los Baños. He has since left that post to be able to focus more on writing.
He received his Bachelor's Degree in Development Communication in 2000, and was the recipient of the Higino A. Ables Award for Best Undergraduate Research. He majored in Development Journalism and took additional units in Marketing, Economics, Social Forestry, and Management. In 2005, he received his Master's Degree in the same field, this time taking a minor in Information Science. His Master's Thesis focused on the health-related knowledge processes and flows in a Tagalog coastal village.
Development communication is about using the art and science of communication to promote social development, and in a lot of ways that's what RE de Leon is all about.
He is currently interested in mythology as the means by which a culture seeks to define itself, as a quide on the collective search for meaning, as a way people ask themselves the questions "who are we?" "what are we doing here?" and "where are we going?"
As a writer his strongest influences are CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien, and inspirational writers John Eldredge and Philip Yancey.
In 2003, he founded the Philippine Order of Narnians, the Philippines' first community of CS Lewis enthusiasts.
He is currently working on a screenplay and a series of short novels set in 8th century Laguna, Philippines.
(Profile as of January 2008)
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