Muhamad Chatib Basri, a former Minister of Finance of Indonesia and former Chairman of the Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board. Dr Basri serves on the National Economic Council, Indonesia’s leading advisory body, composed of academics, business leader, investment banker and former senior government officials. The council’s primary role is to provide the President with policy recommendations on economic issue. Dr. Basri currently also serves as the Co-Chair of the Pandemic Fund (Financial Intermediary Fund for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response) hosted by the World Bank with technical support from WHO.

Dr. Basri is the Chairman of the PT Bank Mandiri Tbk. and also Chairman of the PT XL- Axiata Tbk.

He is also a member of numerous International Advisory councils including the World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development, the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance for COP27 and 28, and the Advisory Board, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, the Australian National University.

Dr.Basri regularly engages as an expert speaker ( as part of distinguished former and current Ministers) at the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Forum at the Harvard University. Additionally, he frequently serves as a guest speaker at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Executive Program Comparative Tax Policy and Administration. Dr. Basri also holds a position on the Governing Board of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

In addition to his various leadership positions, Dr Basri teaches at the Department of Economics University of Indonesia and co-founded CReco Research, an economic consulting firm based in Jakarta.

Dr. Basri was Ash Centre Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School (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) and Thee Kian Wie Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Australian National University (2016-2017).

His expertise is International Trade, Macroeconomics and Political Economy. He is the author of a number of paper in international journals and actively writes for various leading newspaper and magazines in Indonesia