Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (known as “SBY”) is the sixth President of the Republic of Indonesia, and also the country’s first directly elected President in the democratic era. During his 2 (two) terms in office, Yudhoyono delivered what the World Economic Forum called “Indonesia’s golden decade”, a period between 2004 and 2014 that was marked by democratic development, political stability, high economic growth and resilience, conflict resolution and robust international role. Under his leadership, Indonesia became an emerging economy, a regional power, a G-20 member, and assumed important roles on issues ranging from climate change to post-MDG, terrorism to geopolitics, inter-faith to regional architecture, etc.

Yudhoyono’s life story has been nothing less than phenomenal: a military officer who became a 4-star general, who became cabinet minister and then politician, who became President and then one of Asia’s most respected statesmen. His time in office was hardly a breeze: he faced the destructive
tsunami and a series of natural disasters, separatism, terrorism, financial crisis and more. But he managed to overcome these challenges with a steady hand: the country recovered from tsunami and other disasters, the conflict in Aceh was peacefully and permanently resolved in mid-2005; terrorist groups were disbanded and detained; and the economy rebounded. And at a time when democracies around the world were in distress, Indonesia’s democracy steadily moved from strength to strength.

With a Ph.D. in agricultural economics, Yudhoyono relentlessly pursued his 4-track economic program of “pro-growth, pro-job, pro-poor, and pro-environment”. His development mantra was “sustainable growth with equity”. As President of the country with the world’s largest Muslim population, Yudhoyono has become a strong advocate for peaceful and moderate Islam, both internally as well as on the global stage. He devoted great efforts to develop closer relations between the western and Islamic world. He also staunchly promoted and became an architect of military reforms, and championed Indonesia’s robust peace-keeping operations around the world.

After leaving his office, and especially when he lost his beloved wife in 2019, he pursued his childhood passion in painting and volleyball. He established LavAni Volleyball Club in 2019, a prestigious and top rank club in Indonesia. In 2021, as a part of his healing process after the passing
of his wife, Ani Yudhoyono, he started painting which continues to be mastered by him.

Chalothorn Vashirakovit (Boat) is a Partner at TPG based in Singapore and heads the investment activities for The Rise Funds and Rise Climate for Southeast Asia. He is also closely involved in Capital Asia Funds.

Prior to joining TPG, Boat spent a decade in investment management across Asia. He was most recently the Head of Southeast Asia investments for Lone Star Funds where he transacted across the region in both credits and private equity investments. Prior to Lone Star Funds, Boat was Senior Vice President of Clearwater Capital Partners, an Asia-dedicated special situations fund manager based in Hong Kong.

Boat’s investment career has spanned across various Asian geographies including Southeast Asia, Australia and India. His experience also covers numerous sectors such as telecommunication, financial services, real estates, agricultural, engineering services and natural resources. Before his investment career, Boat was a Consultant with Boston Consulting Group and Senior Officer with the Singapore Government.

Sandiaga Uno is an Indonesian entrepreneur, investor, and public figure who served as Indonesia’s Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy from 2020 to 2024. Prior to his ministerial role, he served as Vice Governor of Jakarta from 2017 to 2018 alongside Governor Anies Baswedan. Before entering public service, Sandiaga co-founded Saratoga Investama Sedaya, one of Indonesia’s leading investment companies, and built a long career in finance and entrepreneurship. He is widely recognized for his advocacy of innovation, MSME development, entrepreneurship, and the creative economy in Indonesia.

Gita Sabharwal of India was appointed United Nations Resident Coordinator in Indonesia on 22 April 2024, with the host Government’s approval. She leads 27 UN agencies under the UN Country Team to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in partnership with the government, private sector and civil society. 

Ms. Sabharwal brings close to 30 years of experience in development supporting climate transition, sustainable peace, governance and social policy, while leveraging digital technology and data to accelerate SDGs.

Previously she served as UN Resident Coordinator in Thailand and as Peacebuilding and Development Advisor at the United Nations in Sri Lanka. Before joining the UN, Ms. Sabharwal was The Asia Foundation’s Deputy Country Representative for Maldives and Sri Lanka and has held positions as the Poverty and Policy Advisor for the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) in India and Viet Nam.

Ms. Sabharwal holds a Master’s Degree in Development Management from the University of Wales, UK.

Karthik is Chief Operating Officer at Accion. Prior to Accion, he was a partner in Bain & Company’s Social Impact Practice focused on economic development and ESG. With nearly twenty years of consulting experience globally, he lived and worked across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, prior to serving as a founding member of Bain’s Washington, DC office. 

He previously led Bain’s Travel & Leisure Practice and has led large-scale transformation efforts in financial services, retail, and higher education. He also brings deep expertise in organizational leadership, DE&I, and private equity portfolio support. Outside of work, Karthik serves on the board of Education for Employment and supports the Dudamel Foundation’s work to transform young people’s lives around the world, via access to music and the arts. 

He holds degrees from Princeton University, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and The Wharton School, where he was a Palmer Scholar.

With over ten years of experience in the banking industry, she began her career in marketing after earning a business degree from Monash University. Having had leadership roles in international and national banks, she currently serves as Amartha’s Chief Funding Officer. Her role and goal is to oversee all areas of the lending process and promote prosperity to everyone, especially young women in Indonesia.

Gayatri is a Director, Digital Products at Accion Advisory, where she leads strategic global projects focused on the use of technology to drive financial inclusion. She has 12+ years of experience in financial services and technology for public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Prior to Accion, Gayatri consulted with the European Investment Fund and Amartha, a P2P fintech focused on lending to women-led microbusinesses in Indonesia.

She has also worked with digital lending nonprofits in Kenya and managed valuations for tech and life science startups at Silicon Valley Bank. Gayatri holds a Master of Public Administration at the London School of Economics and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California San Diego.

Eddi Danusaputro is a seasoned venture capital executive and ecosystem builder, currently serving as CEO of BNI Ventures and Chairman of AMVESINDO ((Indonesia Venture Capital Association for Startups). With over 20 years of experience across global firms such as Morgan Stanley, AXA, and Mandiri Capital, he has played a key role in shaping Indonesia’s startup and fintech landscape.

Eddi combines deep investment expertise with a hands-on approach to ecosystem development, focusing on building scalable businesses that address meaningful problems. His work bridges capital, innovation, and entrepreneurship to drive sustainable growth in Indonesia’s digital economy.

With over 25 years of leadership experience in financial services across the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa and South America, Tom has held roles spanning retail banking, SME relationship management, and microfinance. As CEO, he successfully led the institutional transformation of regulated microfinance banks in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania, and served as Regional Head for East and West Africa for a pan-African banking network.

Later, while based in Europe, Tom oversaw the investment activities for Yunus Social Business, an impact fund supporting social enterprises in India, Kenya, Uganda, Brazil, and Colombia. He also brings extensive corporate governance experience, having served on boards of banks and regulated financial institutions in various jurisdictions. Tom is a member of the Institute of Directors. 

Alex Arnall is a human geographer working on how climate and environmental risks affect livelihoods, local economies and community resilience. His research focuses on how people experience and respond to challenges such as flooding, sea-level rise and environmental disruption, and what this means for economic activity and investment on the ground. 

He has worked in diverse settings including small-scale farming and river flooding in Mozambique, sea-level rise in the Maldives, coastal communities in the UK, and salt farming enterprises in Thailand. Using ethnographic and participatory approaches, he works closely with communities to understand how risks are managed in practice and how decisions are made under uncertainty. His work aims to bridge local experience and wider decision-making, connecting community realities with policy, finance and development strategies.

Lesly Goh is a distinguished international policy advisor on data and technology innovations in emerging markets in FinTech, AgTech, and Digital Transformation in Government. She was invited by The Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Center in October 2023 to design an innovation ecosystem with a multi-stakeholder partnership for carbon sequestration, exploring the benefits of biodiversity to achieve the triple win — healthy people, healthy planet, and healthy economy. 

Lesly is a senior technical advisor and former chief technology officer at the World Bank Group. She is also a Fulbright Specialist, a Fellow at the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance, and a Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Lesly was recently appointed as University of Illinois Scientist for SIGMA which is an academic research alliance between the U.S. and Singapore, co-led by the University of Illinois and the National University of Singapore.

Anchored by a commitment to enhance food security, sustain the environment, and build resilient communities, SIGMA aims to transform the agricultural landscape of Southeast Asia through innovation, collaboration, and capacity-building.

Rajat is the Head of Asia at Developing World Markets (DWM), a leading impact investment fund manager, where he focuses on investing in South and Southeast Asia. Previously, he was Head of South and Southeast Asia at Women’s World Banking Asset Management (WAM), where he played a crucial leadership role in determining the firm’s regional investment priorities. 

With over twenty years of experience in investing, consulting, strategy, and operations, he specializes in emerging markets, particularly investing in businesses centred around the informal economy and low-income customer segments.

His expertise encompasses the entire investment lifecycle, including fund conception, fundraising, capital deployment, portfolio management, and divestments. Before his current role, Rajat held key positions at firms such as Elevar Equity, LGT Group, CRISIL, and Reliance. 

He also possesses extensive experience in organizational design and building high-performance teams. Rajat is deeply committed to empowering underserved women and greatly admires their resilience and entrepreneurial spirit.

Rudiantara served as the Minister of Communication and Information Technology of the Republic of Indonesia from 2014 to 2019. A veteran executive with decades of leadership in infrastructure and technology, he currently holds several key governance roles, including President Commissioner of Amartha, PT Rukun Raharja Tbk (oil and gas infrastructure), PT Kitabisa Indonesia (social crowdfunding and life insurance), and PT Elang Andalan Nusantara (DANA e-money).

Additionally, he serves as an Independent Commissioner for PT Vale Indonesia Tbk (integrated nickel mining) and PT Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Tbk. He is also the Chairman of the Indonesia Fintech Society (IFSOC) and an advisor to several technology startups. Prior to his ministerial appointment, from 1996 to 2014, he held various C-suite and board positions across Indonesia’s leading telecommunications firms, including Telkomsel, XL Axiata, Telkom, and Indosat—and served as Deputy CEO of the state power company, PLN.

Angelique Timmer is the Regional Head for Southeast Asia at Women’s World Banking, where she leads efforts to expand women’s economic participation across three priority markets: Indonesia, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

A seasoned executive, startup founder, and former consulting partner, Angelique has led bold transformations in financial systems to make them more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable. She has held leadership roles at Allianz and KoinWorks, where she launched inclusive insurance, gender-smart investments, and digital solutions for MSMEs. As the founder of the green finance startup Ivy, she pioneered climate-aligned financing models that link environmental and economic resilience in Indonesia.

Angelique brings a bold vision for finance as a force for good—championing solutions that serve women, communities, and the planet. She regularly speaks on inclusive fintech, climate and gender finance, and women’s leadership. Her research on low-income consumer behavior has been published in the European Journal of Development.

She holds a degree in International Economic Geography from the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Utrecht, and was recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Meaningful Business Leaders globally in 2024.

Bertram is the co-founder and COO of SukkhaCitta, the award-winning social enterprise on a mission to end the exploitation of women while regenerating our soil. Originally from Germany, he has called Indonesia home for over a decade, leading operations, supply chain, and impact strategy across the company and the foundation.

His work connects smallholder farmers, rural artisans, and global partners to build one of the world’s first regenerative cotton supply chains from the ground up. With a rare mix of experience across international development, climate, business, and finance, Bertram is helping turn fashion, one of the most polluting industries on the planet, into a force for lasting change.

Ramdhan Anggakaradibrata serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Amartha, spearheading the drive to build a profitable enterprise dedicated to serving the underserved, thus fostering prosperity for those at the bottom of the pyramid in Indonesia. As accountability is paramount at Amartha, rigorous yearly audits have been conducted since 2017 in collaboration with PwC to ensure absolute integrity under Ramdhan’s supervision. 

His leadership has facilitated the establishment of a holding entity, closed multiple equity fundraises, and spearheaded large financing deals of more than $300 million from Lendable, Community Investment Management, IFC and many more. Prior to joining Amartha, he played a pivotal role in multiple businesses. With a wealth of experience in managing significant financial transactions, he embarked on a journey with Amartha to leverage his expertise in empowering women entrepreneurs in rural Indonesia. He is committed to guiding the company towards sustained profitability through a
sustainable approach.

As Chubb Life’s President of Southeast Asia & New Zealand, Sang has responsibility and management oversight of Chubb Life’s New Zealand and Asian businesses.

Sang’s career spans three decades and seven countries, having held senior management positions across the financial services industry. These roles include President & CEO of AIA Korea, CEO of Manulife Malaysia and most recently CEO of Manulife Vietnam.

Sang has an MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management, Arizona State University.

Natasha Ardiani Hartoro is the Co-Founder and CEO of Durianpay, a next-generation B2B payments infrastructure company powering over $14B in annualized transaction volume across Web2 and Web3 businesses in Southeast Asia. Since becoming CEO in 2024, she has scaled Durianpay’s revenue 4x, achieved profitability, and strengthened the company’s regulatory and product foundations across fiat payments, stablecoin rails, and cross-border settlement. 

Backed by Peak XV, AC Ventures, and other leading investors, Durianpay is building programmable financial infrastructure for businesses operating across fragmented payment, banking, and regulatory environments. Natasha brings a unique blend of public policy, fintech, and operating experience, having previously worked at the Indonesian Presidential Office, Sea Group, and OVO before founding Durianpay. She is a strong advocate for the future of regulated financial infrastructure in Southeast Asia, especially the convergence of fiat, stablecoins, and real-time payment rails.

Tigor has been in the banking and financial industry as well as capital markets close to 30 years. Prior to joining Superbank, Tigor was the President Director and CEO of PT CIMB Niaga Tbk. (2015 – 2021). He built his 20+ year banking career in Citibank Indonesia, starting as a Management Associate in 1995 and his last position was CEO of Citibank Indonesia, a role he assumed from 2011. He was the first Indonesian to be appointed to the post. 

Previously, he held several key positions in Citibank Indonesia, including Country Head for Institutional Clients Group, Head of Corporate & Investment Banking and Country Risk Manager. In addition, he had also served as Vice President in Institutional Remedial Management Group in Citibank Head Office in New York from 2000 – 2003.

Subhashini Chandran is Senior Vice President, Social Impact, APEMEA at Mastercard, where she leads social impact investments, partnerships, and strategic initiatives advancing inclusive and sustainable growth across the region. With over 25 years of experience, she has worked extensively to strengthen small businesses, women‑led enterprises, and sustainable livelihoods through market‑based solutions and multi‑stakeholder collaboration.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Subhashini led social impact at Yara International across Africa and Asia, where she established the company’s social impact vertical and developed its first five‑year strategy. She also led Xynteo’s India business and directed Vikaasa, a coalition of global companies accelerating progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Tushar Agarwal is a core member of Boston Consulting Group’s Financial Institutions practice, specializing in large-scale transformations, transaction banking, revenue productivity, cost takeout, and balance sheet optimization. He has special expertise in value-based large-scale turnaround programs in financial institutions across Asia Pacific.

Tushar has worked with banks and asset management, payments, and financial supervisory entities in all countries across Southeast Asia, focused in particular on Indonesia. He co-leads TURN/transformation for financial institutions across Asia Pacific and leads the CFO Excellence Program for the Asia Pacific region.

Prior to joining BCG, Tushar was a member of the financial services practice for Booz & Company and prior to that worked in global markets divisions with Deutsche Bank and Citigroup (where he started his career).

Alessandro Voltolini is Amartha’s VP of Strategy. Previously, Alessandro was at McKinsey & Company, where he served leading Indonesian and international players across multiple sectors, focusing on financial services and fintech. He has extensive experience in the Southeast Asian technology and startup ecosystem, having served as Head of Special Projects at Grab and Group Managing Director at HappyFresh. He holds a Master’s degree in International Management from Università Bocconi and a Master of Science (MSc) in International Management (CEMS MIM) from Keio University.

Nancy Widjaja is a Policy Advisor to the Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Financial Health (UNSGSA), H.M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. She has played a central role in advancing the focus from financial access to financial health, helping to position it as a priority across policymakers, regulators, and industry leaders. Nancy leads strategic advocacy and partnerships spanning Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and global forums such as the G20 and World Economic Forum.

Her work focuses on embedding financial health into policy, market design, and private sector practices, ensuring financial systems support resilience, long-term security, and economic opportunity. Prior to this role, she was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group, advising financial institutions on strategy and growth. She was also a founding team member at the Alliance for Financial Inclusion and has worked with Accion Venture Lab and UNCDF on inclusive finance and impact investing initiatives.

Fadhilah Mathar is a visionary leader in digital transformation and public infrastructure development, currently serving as the President Director of BAKTI (Badan Aksesibilitas Telekomunikasi dan Informasi) at the Ministry of Communications and Informatics, with an ambitious mission to bridge the digital divide and connect the country’s most remote, frontier, and outermost regions (3T areas).

An advocate for inclusive technology, Ibu Fadillah holds a Doctorate from Universitas Negeri Jakarta. She began her career in the educational sector.

Jennifer Buckley is the Founder and Managing Director of Sweef Capital, a women-led impact investment firm based in Singapore that invests in the potential of women and the future of the Asia-Pacific. The firm provides equity and quasi-equity capital to growth-stage companies across Southeast Asia, focusing on sectors including healthcare, education, food systems and climate resilience.

Jennifer founded Sweef Capital in 2021 after leading the Asia and women’s economic empowerment investment programmes at SEAF, where she led the SEAF Women’s Opportunity Fund and contributed to the development of gender-lens investing benchmarks for institutional markets. She brings more than two decades of private equity leadership experience across Europe and Asia, including senior roles at GE Capital, Private Advisors and Goldman Sachs International.

At Sweef Capital, Jennifer leads an investment strategy that embeds women’s economic participation as a core driver of value creation, operationalised through the firm’s Gender ROITM framework. Her work focuses on mobilising capital toward inclusive businesses expanding access to essential servicesand economic opportunity. Jennifer holds an MSc in International Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics, as well as law degrees from the University of Canterbury.

Joe Emmim is the Founder and CEO/Managing Director of Adehyeman Savings and Loans LTD (“Adehyeman”), based in Accra, Ghana, where he oversees operational excellence and digital transformation. His leadership is defined by a blend of boardroom governance expertise and hands-on operational execution. 

He developed this perspective during his transition from Chairman of the Board of Directors to Managing Director. This unique advantage has enabled him to translate high-level strategy into measurable, record-breaking financial results.

Ms. Jennifer Kim Rosenzweig, DrPh is the Country Director for WFP Indonesia. Ms. Rosenzweig first joined WFP in 2013 as part of the Asia regional programme team in Bangkok before moving to Rome in 2018 to take up her post as the HQ Nutrition Division Chief for Knowledge Management and Digital Innovation. Prior to joining WFP, Ms. Rosenzweig held senior management positions in the NGO sector working across the Balkans, Caucuses, and in Asia. Notably, Ms. Rosenzweig led the Indonesia Save the Children Health and Nutrition team from 2006 to 2011. She holds a Master’s Degree in Health Administration from Clark University, a Master’s in Public Health from John’s Hopkins University and a Doctorate of Public Health from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jonathan Sudharta is the CEO & Co-Founder of Halodoc, Indonesia’s leading digital health ecosystem, with a mission to simplify access to healthcare through technology. Since founding the company in 2016, he has led Halodoc in developing innovative healthcare solutions used by millions of Indonesians, including telemedicine, homecare, insurance integration, mental health, and skin health services.

Started to work with GRI in 2018 with the task to build the capacity on sustainability reporting in Indonesia for listed companies and MSMEs. She is now supporting GRI ASEAN Network program implementation across ASEAN. She has more than twenty five years working on the development program.

Facilitated the establishment of the National SDG Secretariat, development of the MDG Acceleration Framework, strengthening health governance and access to health, local economic development, gender and diversity, violence against women, human trafficking, and the inclusion of young people. She started as medical doctor and transition into sustainability practitioners.

Miguel Soriano is a fintech leader and green finance expert at IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, where he leads Upstream efforts for the financial sector in East Asia and the Pacific region. With over 20 years of experience in investment banking, business development, strategy consulting, and project management, he originates and manages innovative projects that create new markets and address development gaps in emerging economies.

Miguel completed his PhD thesis on fintech startup evaluation for financial inclusion in 2017 and teaches fintech to MBA and Master of Science programs as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and Visiting Lecturer at Cambridge University. As Country Anchor for Advisory and Upstream in the financial sector, he oversees projects across Indonesia and Timor-Leste, focused on stimulating private sector investment.

Liris is the founder and CEO of Jala, an aquaculture technology startup focused on transforming the shrimp industry through digital innovation. Over the past seven years, she has led Jala in helping digitalize more than 10,000 shrimp farms, raising over US$18 million in funding, and building end-to-end solutions for the aquaculture ecosystem alongside a team of more than 150 people.

Before founding Jala, Liris worked as an oil and gas engineer at Schlumberger. In recognition of her achievements, she was named to the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list and the Gen.T List in 2021.

Meeta is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer at Helicap, a leading private credit investment firm headquartered in Singapore. With nearly 20 years of experience in asset management and private markets, Meeta has worked across both developed and emerging markets and is recognised as a thought leader in sustainable finance.

A seasoned expert in ESG and impact investments, she has a proven track record in developing and executing successful sustainable finance strategies through product innovation and strategic implementation, including impact funds and social bonds that drive capital towards creating positive measurable impact.

Her experience spans across financial institutions, development finance organisations and fintech, where she has been instrumental in developing proprietary ESG and impact frameworks that enhance transparency and accountability, bringing credibility to the deployment of impact finance.

Meeta holds a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and is a CFA Charterholder.