Alex Bello Brillantes Jr. is a Filipino political scientist and expert of local governance and development administration.
in political science from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, as well as a Master in Public Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of the Philippines Diliman.
He was secretary-general of the Association of Schools of Public Administration of the Philippines (ASPAP), and Deputy Secretary General of the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA), and founding member of the Network of Asia Pacific Schools of Public Administration and Governance (NAPSIPAG).
[5] Dr. Brillantes was the chairman of the Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC).
He has written three books, and published papers on local government, development administration and civil society in local and international journals, including Asian Survey, Administrative Science Quarterly, Kasarinlan, the Philippine Journal of Public Administration.