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Walden Bello

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Walden Bello
Bello in 2007
Member of the Philippine House of Representatives for Akbayan Partylist
In office
June 30, 2007 – March 16, 2015
Professor of Sociology and Public Administration at University of the Philippines
Personal details
Born
Walden Flores Bello

(1945-11-11) November 11, 1945 (age 78)
Cardona, Rizal, Philippine Commonwealth
NationalityFilipino
Political partyCommunist Party of the Philippines (1970s–early 1990s)
Akbayan (1990s–2015)
PLM (2021-present)
Spouse(s)
Suranuch Thongsila
(m. 2015)
MotherLuz Flores
FatherJesse Bello
Alma materAteneo de Manila University, Princeton University
OccupationActivist, writer
ProfessionEnvironmentalist, social worker
AwardsRight Livelihood Award
Websitewww.waldenbello.org

Walden Flores Bello (born November 11, 1945) is a Filipino academic, environmentalist, and social activist. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2007 until 2015. He is an adjunct professor at Binghamton University.[1]

On October 20, 2021, Bello announced his candidacy for vice president in the 2022 Philippine elections as the running mate of presidential candidate and labor leader Leody de Guzman. Bello is a democratic socialist.[2]

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  1. "Walden Bello - Our Faculty - Sociology | Binghamton University". Archived from the original on 2021-10-27. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  2. "Ka Leody-Bello platform: Higher wages, billionaire's tax, mass murderers behind bars". October 23, 2021.