Abby Catucod joined the National Security College as Course Coordinator in January 2018. She was acting Executive Assistant to the Head of College for an interim period in 2017.

Her human resources experience involved the design and implementation of the human resource development program for the provincial government of Northern Samar under the Philippines-Australia Governance Facility and later the Philippines-Australia Human Resource Development Facility. She has over 12 years project management, policy, and strategic planning experience mostly in aid-funded development administration projects, particularly in the areas of governance, development planning, economic development, disaster risk reduction and management, and poverty reduction.

Abby holds a Bachelor of Political Science (University of the Philippines, Diliman) and Master of Public Policy (ANU).