Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana ( Kusumaatmadja; born 16 August 1960) is currently the Executive Secretary of the

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Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific. She is a professor in the Faculty of Economics,

Padjadjaran University Padjadjaran University (; ), abbreviated as UNPAD) is a public university located in Sumedang Regency and Bandung, which is the provincial capital of West Java, Indonesia. It was established on 11 September 1957. UNPAD has gained the most appl ...

, Bandung, and has served as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs. She is a former State Minister for National Development Planning / Head of BAPPENAS in the

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under the administration of president

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. Alisjahbana is the daughter of

Mochtar Kusumaatmadja Mochtar Kusumaatmadja (17 February 1929 – 6 June 2021) was an Indonesian diplomat and politician. He was Indonesia's minister of justice from 1974 until 1978 and foreign minister from 1978 until 1988. Early life and education Kusumaatmadja ...

, who was cabinet minister of Indonesia from 1973 to 1988.

Career

Alisjahbana has served as chair of the Economics and Development Studies Department (now the Faculty of Economics) in

and Director of the Center for Economics and Development Studies (LP3E). She obtained her B.A. in Economics from

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and earned an M.A. in Economics from

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. She earned her PhD in Economics from

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. Before becoming a minister, Alisjahbana undertook various research tasks for the

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and the Australian Agency for International Development (

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). Alisjahbana served as a minister in the

as Minister of State for National Development and Planning / Head of Bappenas between 2009 and 2014.

Personal life

Alisjahbana is the second daughter of

and Siti Hadidjah. She is married to Andi Alisjahbana, formerly Director of Technology & Development of

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. They have two children.

Published works

* Regional development in the era of decentralization : growth, poverty, and the environment , * Green accounting and sustainable development in Indonesia , * インドネシアの地方分権化: 分権化をめぐる中央・地方のダイナミクスとリアリティ, アジア経済研究所 (2003) (Regional Income Inequality in Indonesia and the Initial Impact of the Economic Crisis) * Pemikiran dan permasalahan ekonomi di Indonesia dalam setengah abad terakhir 945 - 2005buku 1 s.d. buku 5 , * Labour Market Dimensions of Poverty in Indonesia * "Survey of Recent Developments", ''

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'', 2002, Vol 38, No 3, December. (with Chris Manning). * "Tenaga kerja di pundak SBY", Majalah Tempo, Vol. 35, No 35, 2006. * "Survey of Recent Developments", ''

'', 2017, Vol 53, No 2, August. (with Jonah Busch).

References

External links

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