Meet Our Team
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Prof. Robin Michael Garcia, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Robin Michael U. Garcia is a business executive, social scientist, professor, and adviser who has provided strategic counsel to companies, electoral aspirants, governments, and international organizations.
He is the President & CEO of WR Advisory Group, a professional services firm specializing in polling, digital analytics, political intelligence and risk, strategic communications, and public policy. He is concurrently the chairman of its opinion research arm, WR Numero Research-the data and analysis partner of ABS-CBN during the 2025 Philippine midterm election coverage.
He is currently a Fellow at the Penn Project on the Future of US-China Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2023 he was selected as an Eisenhower Global Fellow and in the same year as Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House. In 2025, he was invited to be an IISS Shangri-La Dialogue Young Leader, the premier national security summit in Asia.
He was an Associate Professor at the Ateneo School of Government, an Assistant Professor at the Political Economy Program of the University of Asia & the Pacific (UA&P), and a Lecturer at De La Salle University and the University of the Philippines in Diliman.
He was part of the 24-person policy research group convened at the House of Representatives of the Philippines where he advised on Philippine policy towards the West Philippine Sea. In 2026 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Eisenhower Fellows Association of the Philippines (EFAP).
He was an ABS-CBN Resident Analyst during the 2025 Election Coverage. His views have also appeared in top media organizations such as CNN, Aljazeera, Channel News Asia, Rappler, ANC, GMA News, and BusinessWorld among others. He frequently speaks in conferences and forums organized by think tanks, governments, and universities.
He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in International Politics from Fudan University in Shanghai where he was distinguished with the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence. He obtained a Master of Public Administration from the University of the Philippines’ National College of Public Administration and Governance (UP-NCPAG), as well as a BA in Development Studies from De La Salle University where he was awarded the Gawad Magaaral Award (Distinguished Student Award).
Gary D. Ador Dionisio
Fellow
Prof. Cleve Arguelles
Head of Research and Fellow
Prof. Cleve Arguelles brings years of experience as a political scientist. His research examines contemporary challenges of developing democracies and enduring autocracies in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. His work on disinformation, populism, and the global rise of China has been well received by many people and institutions in the industry who awarded him research grants. These include the Asia Democracy Network, Central European University Budapest Foundation, and the UN Development Programme.
He is a PhD candidate at The Australian National University, and an Assistant Professional Lecturer at De La Salle University.
Prof. Ador Torneo Ph.D.
Senior Adviser and Fellow
Dr. Ador Torneo has extensive experience in public sector reform, performance management, international migration, emotional labor, and the use of data in development and governance work.
He is the Director of the Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance and a Full Professor of the Department of Political Science, at the De La Salle University in Manila. He is a development and governance researcher and practitioner with a substantial research portfolio and extensive experience in capacity building, monitoring and evaluation, and public policy research in the Philippines, the ASEAN region, and South Korea.
Dr. Gary Dionisio
Abby Guevarra
Senior Associate for Accounts
Abby Guevarra is an experienced project manager and analyst and currently serves as Senior Associate for Accounts at WR Numero Research. She has worked in both private and public sectors, as well as international development agencies such as the International Labour Organization (ILO) and The Asia Foundation (TAF).
Her main research areas are labor policies, specifically on occupational safety and health, labor migration in Southeast Asia, and comparative political economy. As an analyst, Abby uses political and economic concepts and theories to make sense of statistical data in providing policy actions and forecast of sociopolitical trends, as well as strategic communication measures.
Abby obtained an MA in Political Economy specializing in international relations and development from the University of Asia and the Pacific and a BS in Human Resource Development and Management from the University of Santo Tomas.
Chuck Pineda
Senior Data Analyst
With extensive experience in information retrieval and overhauls, Chuck Pineda handles the analytics and daily logistics operations of WR Numero Research as Senior Data Analyst. He has previously worked for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as an Information Management Assistant. Chuck gained his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the Eastern Visayas State University.
Iza Caingcoy
Senior Data Analyst
As Senior Data Analyst, Iza Caingcoy is responsible for maintaining the assets of the analytics operations, as well as data gathering and resource mobilization. She has worked in an accounting firm while finishing her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the Eastern Visayas State University prior to joining WR Numero Research.
Camilla Rochel Perez
Junior Data Analys
Camilla Rochel Perez has a background in data analysis and data presentation. She obtained her secondary education at the Philippine Science High School Eastern Visayas Campus in 2018 and is currently studying at the University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College.
She focuses her research work on scientific, political and economic issues. Camilla scrutinizes public controversies and applies social and political ideologies to interpret data within the given parameters.