Chester is the Founder and President of the Manila-based think tank International Development and Security Cooperation (IDSC) and teaches in the graduate school at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Considered as the “father of security anthropology” in Southeast Asia, he also lectures for and advises theses of senior military officers at the National Defense College of the Philippines and the Command and General Staff College. A Fellow of the College of Defense Studies at National Defense University in Beijing, and the US State Department under the stewardship of the University of Delaware, he has published in peer-reviewed journals in the purview of security studies and recently co-authored Perspective on Terrorism in the Philippine Context and won the IFSSO international prize for the Social Science Award. He is regularly interviewed by local and foreign media on the South China Sea, regional terorism, and related international political economy issues.