The figure of Ira Noviarti, leaving the position of President Director of Unilever after a career of decades

Tuesday, 28 November 2023 – 16:12 WIB

Jakarta – Two directors of PT Unilever Indonesia Tbk have submitted their resignations to the company. This resignation has been announced by the consumer goods marketing company to the Indonesian Stock Exchange.

The two Unilever directors who resigned were Shiv Sahgal and Sandeep Kohli. The reasons for this resignation were also explained in the letter submitted on November 23.

Prior to that, former President Director Ira Noviarti had resigned first, namely on October 24 2023. So, who is Ira Noviarti? Below we present complete information that has been provided VIVA summarized from various sources.

The figure of Ira Noviarti

Ira Noviarti is an Indonesian citizen, who was born and lives in Jakarta, 31 December 1971. It is known that Ira earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Indonesia in 1995, majoring in Financial Accounting. In 2019, Ira followed suit Senior Executive Leadership Program di Harvard Business School.

Currently, Ira is known as a woman who has a very brilliant career. Before serving as President Director of Unilever Indonesia, Ira had joined the company in 1995.

He has worked his way up and held a number of senior positions not only at Unilever Indonesia, but also in the Southeast Asia region.

Career at Unilever

The beginning of his career at Unilever began when Ira joined the company as a management trainee in the UNVR marketing division from 1995 to 2001.

After that, he continued his career as marketing director ice cream UNVR from 2001 to 2006. Ira then became marketing director skin carea position that successfully contributed greatly to Unilever’s profits, and served from 2006 to 2010.

His career continued to shine at Unilever, and Ira rose to become vice president ice cream, mediaand consumer insight from 2010 to 2014.

From 2014 to 2017, Ira served as Vice President South East Asia Unilever Food Solutions. In the period 2017 to 2020, Ira was elected and served as Vice President of Beauty & Personal Care.

Ultimately, Ira Noviarti was appointed President Director of Unilever through the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on November 25 2020.

Ira held this position from 2020 to 2023 before resigning. Apart from that, Ira has also served as Chair of the B20 Indonesia Women in Business Action Council and became Board and Advisory member at BritCham Indonesia, as well as Chairperson of MMA Indonesia.