Dr. Banlaoi is the Director of the Center for Intelligence and National Security Studies, a constituent unit of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research. He teaches at the Department of International Studies at Miriam College in the Philippines and is currently an Adjunct Research Professor at the National Institute for South China Sea Studies in Hainan, China. He was a full professor of Political Science at the National Defense College of the Philippines, an assistant professor of International Studies at De La Salle University, and an instructor in Political Science at the University of the Philippines at Los Banos.