Nassef Manabilang Adiong (born May 07, 1985) is a Filipino academic, researcher, policy and legislation reviewer/drafter, editor, author, consultant, advisor, founder of research networks, and wrote numerous books and articles regarding interdisciplinary study between international Relations (IR) and Islamic Studies, as well as topics on Decolonial Studies and Bangsamoro Studies.

Dr Nassef Manabilang Adiong graduated magna cum laude in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in International Studies from the University of the East which would later award him one of its 75 Most Outstanding Alumni.

[3] He obtained his Master in International Studies degree in 2009 from the University of the Philippines where he would later teach, conferred as UP Scientist III in recognition of his dedication to scientific research under its scientific productivity system, and awarded as UP Diliman's Centennial Professorial Chair.

[4][5][6] He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Middle East Technical University.

[7] To sustain his scholarship growth, he was a Study of the United States Institutes (SUSI) scholar on religious pluralism at Temple University and granted fellowships from Chevening at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and from TÜBİTAK of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, as well as the European Union's Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia Scholarship.