Ino Manalo is a graduate of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, with a degree in Humanities. He has a Masters in International Affairs majoring in Economic Development from Columbia University in New York City. He was an assistant professor of Art History at the University of the Philippines, Assistant Corporate Secretary of Metrobank Foundation and Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila.

He is also a writer having won the Palanca Award for Literature for the Short Story, Children’s Story and Essay. He has written a number of books including The Home of Independence, a guidebook to the residence of General Emilio Aguinaldo. His most recent publication is Sukaran, a documentation of the vernacular domestic architecture of two Bohol towns.

He has done a number of international consultancies, the most recent being a review of museums in the Chinese provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan, as well as the training of teachers in the interpretation of heritage sites in Mongolia..

Ino has been involved with the development of the cultural tourism of Bohol province. He has set up two community walking tours. He now lives in a lovely 1940s house in Baclayon town, filled with art works from Bohol that he has been collecting for many years.