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Muhamad Chatib Basri, a former Minister of Finance of Indonesia and former Chairman of the Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board, serves on the National Economic Council of the President of the Republic of Indonesia, the country’s top advisory body composed of academics, business leaders, investment bankers and former senior officials. Since September 2025 Dr. Basri has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University. He also serves as the Co-Chair of the Pandemic Fund for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response) hosted by the World Bank with technical support from WHO.
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 the COP, and the Advisory Board, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, the Australian National University.
Dr.Basri regularly engages as an expert speaker, alongside distinguished former and current Ministers, at the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Forum at the Harvard University. He also frequently serves as a guest speaker at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Executive Program Comparative Tax Policy and Administration. In addition, he serveson 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.
Previously, 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 spans International Trade, Macroeconomics and Political Economy. He is the author of a number of paper in international journals and contributes regularly to leading newspaper and magazines in Indonesia. His publications include, among others, papers in the American Economic Review, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, The World Economy, and the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. He earned his PhD in Economics from the Australian National University. In 2024, Dr. Basri was named a Fellow of the International Economic Association (IEA), a distinction granted annualy to 10 leading economists worldwide for their contributions to research, writing, and policy making,
