Prof. Salvador Santino Regilme

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Prof. Salvador Santino Regilme is Associate Professor and Program Chair of International Relations at the Institute for History, Leiden University. An interdisciplinary scholar of international relations and human rights, his expertise focuses on the politics of foreign aid and development, international human rights, and transformations in the global order, with particular attention to the United States, the Global Majority, and transnational authoritarian practices. He has held research fellowships at the Macmillan Center of Yale University, the Center for Global Cooperation Research at Universität Duisburg-Essen, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity’s Comparative Constitutionalism Group, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam.

His scholarship has been recognized by major international academic associations, and his forthcoming book, "United States and Chinese Foreign Assistance and Diplomacy: Aid for Dominance" (Manchester University Press, 2026), is co-authored with Obert Hodzi. He received his PhD in Political Science and North American Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin and previously studied at Yale University, Universität Osnabrück, and De La Salle University–Manila.