[1][2][3] He is a tenured Associate Professor of International Relations based at the Institute of History within the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University, the Netherlands.
[13] He is the first Philippines-born scholar to complete a joint PhD in Political Science and American Studies[14] and the first Philippines-born scholarship recipient of the prestigious "Helmut-Schmidt Program" (formerly Public Policy and Good Governance), which allowed him to earn a German-language diploma from the Goethe-Institut Göttingen and a MA from the Universität Osnabrück.
[1][3][9] Regilme completed his PhD under the supervision of Lora Anne Viola (chair), Thomas Risse, and Susan D. Hyde[15] through a joint supervision from Freie Universität Berlin and Yale University, funded by the German Research Foundation's Excellence Initiative and the Fox International Fellowship at Yale University.
He is the author of Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia, published by the University of Michigan Press, 2021, co-editor of the volume Human Rights at Risk: International Institutions, American Power, and the Future of Dignity (Rutgers University Press), co-editor of American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers (Routledge, 2017) and the author of many peer-reviewed articles in leading journals such as Political Geography, International Studies Perspectives, Third World Quarterly, Geoforum, International Political Science Review, and Human Rights Review, among many others.
[18] In 2022, he received Honorable Mention for the Best Scholarly Article Award in Human Rights from American Sociological Association for his paper on the global war on drugs in Colombia and the Philippines.