Dradjad Hari Wibowo, Ir (IPB), MEc (the University of Queensland - UQ), PhD (UQ).
Lektor Kepala (Associate Professor), Perbanas Institute, Jakarta.
Member of the Board, Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), Geneva.
Chairperson, the Board of Founders, the Indonesian Forestry Certification Cooperation (IFCC), Bogor.
Founder and Chairperson of the Oversight Board, Sustainable Development Indonesia (SDI), Surabaya.
Founder, Honorary Chairperson, Foundation for International Human Rights Reporting Standards (FIHRRST), Brussels and Jakarta.
Senior Economist, Institute for Development Economics and Finance (INDEF), Jakarta.
Chairperson, Board of Experts, the National Mandate Party (PAN), Jakarta
Dradjad H. Wibowo (60 years) earned his graduate degree from the Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, IPB University (fka Bogor Agricultural Institute), Indonesia. He was Faculty of Agriculture’s Valedictorian in the June 1987 graduation. He earned his Master of Economics and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the Department of Economics, the University of Queensland, Australia.
Since 1999 Dradjad Wibowo has been writing hundreds of articles on the Indonesian economy, finance, politic and strategic affairs in leading news outlets in Indonesia. His opinions appear very frequently in Indonesian press, including TVs, radios and printed-and online-media.
He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Development Economics and Finance (INDEF), a leading policy think-tank in Indonesia, from September 1999 to February 2004 and continues to serve the Institute as one of its shareholders and Senior Economists until today. He served as the Executive Director of the Indonesian Eco-labeling Institute (LEI) from May 2000 to February 2004.
He briefly joined PT Bank Negara Indonesia Tbk., a leading Indonesian state bank, as a member of the Board of Commissioners from December 2003 to May 2004 to help restructure the bank following its US$ 170 million-letter of credit scandal.
He was an Alternate Spokesperson for the Producing Countries Caucus in the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) meeting in Panama, November 2003. In early 2000s he served as a member / spokesperson of the Republic of Indonesia’s delegation to various international organizations such as ITTO and Asian Forestry Partnership.
He served as an expert member of the National Food Security Board from 2002 to October 2004. In July-August 2002 he chaired a Bappenas’ Team on Domestic Debt Reduction, focusing on alternative policies to reduce debt stock and to minimize debt service payments on banking recapitalization bonds.
He joined the National Mandate Party (Partai Amanat Nasional – PAN) in January 2004. He served as the party’s Vice-Chairperson, Chairperson of Local Elections Board and Chief of Internal Adjudication Court from January 2010 to February 2015 and as the Vice-Chairperson of the party’s Ethics and Honor Board from February 2015 to February 2020. From February 2020 until today he serves as Chairperson of the party’s Board of Experts. He was elected as a Member of Parliament in 2004 and sat on the Banking and Finance Committee for the period of 2004-2009.
Upon retiring from the Parliament, he founded Sustainable Development Indonesia (SDI) in 2009 to foster implementation of sustainable development. In 2011 he founded the Indonesian Forestry Certification Cooperation (IFCC) to promote certification of sustainable forest management and forest-based products based on the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification’s (PEFC’s) scheme. He served as IFCC’s Chairperson from 2011 to 2021 and is serving as its Board of Founders’ Chairperson since 2021. He co-founded and is an Honorary Chairperson of the Foundation for International Human Rights Reporting Standards (FIHRRST) based in Brussel and Jakarta. He served as a member of the Impartiality Committee for AJA Registrars Europe, Rome, from 2015 to December 2019. From November 2019 until today, he serves as a Board member of the Geneva-based PEFC, which is the world’s largest sustainable forest management certification scheme.
In 2007 he became an Associate Professor (Lektor Kepala) at the Graduate School of Management at the ABFI Perbanas Institute, Jakarta. He has been publishing articles on health economics, forestry, sustainability, banking and finance, and economics in several journals including The Bulletin of the World Health Organization, BMC Public Health, and International Journal of Social Economics.
In 2021 he founded Sustainability Science and Resources (SSR), a peer-reviewed open access journal aiming at providing a scholarly forum for the dissemination and exchange of research and developments in biological, physical, and social sciences pertinent to sustainability and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SSR is jointly published by IFCC and Millennium Resource Alternatives (MRA) LLC, supported by SDI. He served as SSR’s editor-in-chief from January 2022 to May 2024.
He served as Chairperson of the Strategic Information and Policy Council of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) from August 2015 to October 2016.