Dr. Muhamad Chatib Basri is a former Minister of Finance of Indonesia and former Chairman of the Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board. He currently serves on the National Economic Council, a presidential advisory body composed of leading economists, business leaders, and former senior officials, providing strategic economic policy advice to the President.
Dr. Basri is Co-Chair of the Pandemic Fund, a Financial Intermediary Fund hosted by the World Bank with technical support from the WHO, focused on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response.
He serves on several international advisory councils, including the World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development, thce High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance for COP27 and COP28, and the Advisory Board of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at the Australian National University.
Dr. Basri is a regular speaker at the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Forum, and frequently lectures in the Executive Program on Comparative Tax Policy and Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School. He also sits on the Governing Board of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.
He teaches at the Department of Economics, University of Indonesia, and is co-founder of CReco Research, a Jakarta-based economic consulting firm. His previous fellowships include appointments at Harvard Kennedy School, the University of California San Diego, NTU Singapore, and the Australian National University.
An expert in international trade, macroeconomics, and political economy, Dr. Basri has published in journals such as the American Economic Review, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, World Economy, and the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies etc. He has also contributed chapters to volumes published by the IMF, World Bank, and the Peterson Institute for International Economics etc, and writes regularly for major media outlets in Indonesia and other countries.