No. 30 - Muhamad Chatib Basri

Indonesian. Economist, Former Minister of Finance, scholar. Muhamad Chatib Basri is Indonesia’s former Minister of Finance and former Chairman of the Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board. Currently he is teaching at the the Department of Economics University of Indonesia. He is also the Chairman of Bank Mandiri, one of Indonesia’s largest bank. He was Ash Centre Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University (2015-2016); Pacific Leadership Fellow at the Centre on Global Transformation, University of California at San Diego (2016); NTUC Professor of International Economic Relation, RSIS, NTU, Singapore (2016); He was also a Thee Kian Wie Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Australian National University (2016-2017). Dr. Basri is a member of the World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development, member of the board of commissioner of the Low Carbon Development Initiative for Indonesia and member of the Advisory Board, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, the Australian National University. He was a member of the the Asia Pacific Regional Advisory Group of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and was a member of the High Level Trade Experts Group co-chaired by Jagdish Bhagwati and Peter Sutherland. He holds a PhD in Economics from Australian National University and BA from University of Indonesia. His expertise is International Trade, Macroeconomics and Political Economy.

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