Rodolfo Certeza Severino Jr. (27 April 1936 – 19 April 2019)[2] was a Filipino diplomat who served as the tenth secretary-general of ASEAN between 1998 and 2002.
He was the inaugural head of the ASEAN Studies Centre (ASC) at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore from 2008 to 2015,[3] and was an adjunct professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore[4] until 2015.
He was an associate senior fellow affiliated with the ASC at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.
He studied at Ateneo de Manila University and held a post-graduate degree in international studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
He previously held the following positions[7][8] Severino died of complications from Parkinson's disease on 19 April 2019, eight days before his 83rd birthday.