Joel Tabora

is a Filipino Jesuit priest and was the fourth president of Ateneo de Davao University from 2011 to 2023.

In 1960, he spent his elementary education at the St. Agnes Parish School in San Francisco, California, where his father was serving in the foreign service.

After his return to the Philippines, he enrolled at the Ateneo de Manila University in his high school years.

As the advocacy chair of the Catholic Education Association of the Philippine, Tabora supports bishops in opposing any law that includes provisions for "abortifacient" birth regulation, which forces Catholics "to act against his or her conscience" and "usurps" parents the right to educate their children on sexuality, but not everyone in there is Catholic in a "Plural" society people should have to come together and understand what is the demand of common good.

Tabora points out that reproductive health should be a product of negotiation and open communication with one another.