Mari Pangestu appointed World Bank MD of Development Policy and Partnerships
The World Bank has appointed Mari Pangestu as Managing Director, Development Policy and Partnerships.
She joins the bank having served as Indonesia’s Minister of Trade from 2004 to 2011 and as Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy from 2011 until October 2014.
She currently is Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington D.C and is also active as advisor to the Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation of International Renewable Energy Agency in Abu Dhabi.
Pangestu is also currently a Senior Fellow at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, as well as Professor of International Economics at the University of Indonesia, adjunct professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.and a Board Member of Indonesia Bureau of Economic Research as well as Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta.
Her appointment is effective 1 March, 2020.
