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Jose Ricardo L. Manapat was the Director of the Records Management and Archives Office of the Philippines (The National Archives) from 1996–1998 and 2002–2008. He was an activist, scholar, writer, researcher, an educator, and author of the book, "''Some Are Smarter Than Others: The History of Marcos' Crony Capitalism''", which is a classic work on anti-cronyism exposing the Marcos wealth,〔http://cpcabrisbane.org/Kasama/2006/V20n4/SmarterThanOthers.htm〕 and Editor-in-Chief of the "''Smart File''", Smart File Magazine Animal Farm Series.〔Smart File Magazine, Published by Animal Farm Publications, 1993-2008〕 ==Early life and education== Ricardo Manapat was born on May 24, 1953, in Manila, Philippines. His father, Apolinario B. Manapat (1925–2006), was a mechanical engineer, and his mother, Angelita de Leon (b. 1923), is a pharmacist and was a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sto. Tomas for 30 years. Manapat was the eldest of five children, and his siblings are Maria Teresa, Maria Lourdes, Maria Cristina, and Jose Alfredo. As a young child, Manapat served as an acolyte at the Sto. Domingo Church in Quezon City, when Mass was still given in Latin. He played piano and violin, and also studied the clarinet and trumpet. He was an avid and voracious reader, and he kept music and books as part of his daily life. He completed his elementary, high school, college, and post-graduate studies at the Ateneo de Manila University, where he cultivated and pursued his interests in mathematics, physics, linguistics, history, economics, and philosophy. He was fluent in English, Spanish and Filipino, and spoke German, French, and Italian. He also studied Latin, Portuguese, Arabic, Catalan,and Sanskrit in his later years. In his high school days, Manapat wanted to serve his country, and in response to the Marcos dictatorship, he joined ''Kasapi'' (Kapulungan ng mga Sandigan ng Pilipinas) and postponed his studies at the Ateneo for a year and became very active in the movement. He resumed his high school studies at the Ateneo de Manila, and obtained his college degree in Philosophy in 1976, graduating with Departmental Honors. Manapat was pursuing a doctorate in Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York, when he decided to return to the Philippines after the People Power movement led by President Corazon Aquino in 1986. He completed a master's degree in Spanish at the University of the Philippines, while pursuing master's degrees in Mathematics and History at the Ateneo de Manila University. In 2005, he began his studies in Historical Sociology towards a doctoral degree at La Trobe University in Australia.〔http://www.latrobe.edu.au/pasc/pasc04.pdf〕 He was the recipient of a Commonwealth International Student Scholarship and was awarded the DM Myer Medal 〔https://www.latrobe.edu.au/handbook/2006/general/awards.htm#P4_23〕 as the most outstanding undergraduate student graduating in that Faculty in 2006.〔http://www.latrobe.edu.au/pasc/pasc08.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jose Ricardo L. Manapat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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