Arvin C. Diesmos is a wildlife biologist and conservation ecologist, he has co-authored around 190 scientific papers and is the co-discoverer of over 80 new species from the Philippines and Southeast Asia of frogs, lizards, snakes, insect arthropods, and a bird species. He received a B.Sc. in Biology and M.Sc. in Wildlife Studies from the University of the Philippines Los Baños, and a Ph.D. in Biology from the National University of Singapore. 

He is a member of Philippine Red List Committee of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources; the Amphibian Specialist Group, Tortoise and Turtles Specialist Group, Crocodile Specialist Group, and the Amphibian Red List Authority of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He also served as an Alternate Member of the Animals Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna (CITES). 

He is, at present, a Senior Director at the ASEAN Center for Biodiversity; he will be assuming the role of Director for the National Museum of Natural History of the National Museum of the Philippines in September this year. 

Arvin is an Academician of the National Academy of Science and Technology of the Philippines.