Muhamad Chatib "Dede" Basri is an Indonesian economist and was the

Minister of Finance A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...

in the

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between 21 May 2013 and 20 October 2014 when the term of the administration of the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was completed. Before his appointment as Minister of Finance he was chair of the Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board (''Badan Kordinasi Penanaman Modal'', or BKPM). He served in a number of senior economic advisory positions before being appointed as chair of the Investment Coordinating Board in 2011. He was, amongst other things, an advisor to the former Indonesian Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Deputy Chair of the president's Economic National Committee (''Komite Ekonomi Nasional'', or KEN) and was Sherpa to the president of Indonesia for G-20 meetings Basri has a PhD from the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...

. He also teaches in the Faculty of Economics at the

University of Indonesia The University of Indonesia ( id, Universitas Indonesia, abbreviated as UI) is a public university in Depok, West Java and Salemba, Jakarta, Indonesia. It is one of the oldest tertiary-level educational institutions in Indonesia (known as the D ...

(FEUI) and was Director of the
Lembaga Penyelidikan Ekonomi dan Masyarakat
' (Institute for Economic and Social Research, or LPEM) within the FEUI and Ash Centre Senior Fellow at the

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2015–2016. He was also a fellow at the Centre on Global Transformation University of California at

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He is now a member of The World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development']. and also member of the Advisory Board of Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at the

. Dede Basri's areas of expertise include international trade, macroeconomics, and political economy. As an academic economist he has published in various economic journals such as ''World Economy'', ''Asian Economic Papers'', and the ''

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.'' He has also been a Thee Kian Wie Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Australian National University and adjunct fellow in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics at the Australian National University. Dr.Basri is also a member of Group of Eminent Personalities of the OECD Development Centre https://www.oecd.org/dev/Development-Centre-Governing-Board-7th-HLM-Communique-2021.pdf

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Basri, Muhammad Chatib Finance Ministers of Indonesia 1965 births Living people Indonesian Muslims Government ministers of Indonesia 20th-century Indonesian economists Australian National University alumni Politicians from Jakarta 21st-century Indonesian economists