Joy Dianne Gumatay

Joy Dianne Gumatay is a maritime peacebuilding and strategic communications practitioner serving as Senior Strategic Communications Officer of the Philippine Coast Guard. Years of communicating during politically sensitive maritime crises have shaped her vision for institutionalising communication as a maritime security capability. She independently writes on Indo-Pacific maritime security, regional cooperation, and frontline maritime diplomacy, with policy analyses published by the Lowy Institute and other international affairs institutions.