Bambang Susantono rumored to be inaugurated as Head of the National Capital Authority (IKN) Nusantara by President Joko Widodo. Bambang has experience in government since the era of the President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY).
Bambang is a man born in Yogyakarta, November 4, 1963. He received his undergraduate education at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology.
He also studied masters in two majors at the University of California. Bambang is a graduate of urban planning and transportation engineering at the campus. In 2000, Bambang graduated from the doctoral program in infrastructure planning from the same campus.
He has been in government since 2007. Bambang is trusted to serve as Deputy Coordinating Minister for the Economy for Infrastructure Coordination and Regional Development until 2010. Bambang is actively teaching and organizing in the field of transportation studies. He served as Chairman of the Indonesian Transportation Society from 2004 to 2010.
In the second term of President SBY’s administration, Bambang became a member of the cabinet. SBY appointed Bambang as Deputy Minister of Transportation in 2009. He also briefly held the position of PT Garuda Indonesia Tbk in 2012.
After helping the government, Bambang joined the Asian Development Bank in 2015. He served as Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Dr. Susantono provides strategic leadership on ADB’s commitment to the global sustainability and climate change agenda through mainstreaming environment, climate change and disaster risk, governance, regional integration and cooperation, gender and social equality, rural development and food security, across all business lines. ADB,” quoted from the official ADB website.
Bambang will be sworn in today. Jokowi will directly lead the inauguration ceremony.
Bambang defeated a number of candidates for the Head of the IKN Nusantara Authority who had been in the public spotlight. Some of them are Basuki Tjahaja Purnama alias Ahok, Bambang Brodjonegoro, Tumiyono, Azwar Anas, and Ridwan Kamil.
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