Bayu Krisnamurthi

Professor in Agribusiness Policy. President Director of BULOG (2023-2024), the only Indonesia SOE for export and import as well as distributing major staple food commodities in Indonesia, and President Commissioner of RNI-IDFood (2021-2023), the biggest SOE food holding company in Indonesia. Founder and Chairman of the Inclusive and Sustainable Agribusiness Initiatives. Chairs IPB University SDGs Network (2019-2021). Chair of the Association of Agribusiness Indonesia (2019-2023). He has held various strategic positions in the Indonesian government for nearly two decades, including Deputy Coordinating Minister for Economic Affair (2005-2010), Vice Minister of Agriculture between 2009 and 2011, and Vice Minister of Trade from 2011 to 2014. He also served as CEO of Indonesia Estate Crop Fund, Ministry of Finance, Republic of Indonesia between 2015 and 2017. Chairman of Indonesian Society of Agricultural Economics from 2011 to 2017, he also chaired the Board of Yayasan Danamon Peduli (Danamon Peduli Foundation) from 2015 to 2019. He was Senior Expert Panel of Indonesia’s Chamber of Commerce between 2018 and 2020. He has been a Board member of Yayasan Bina Swadaya (Self-Reliance Development Foundation) since 1999 and Executive Chair since 2018, as well as Board member of the Andgreen Fund, Netherland (2017-2023). Dr. Krisnamurthi got his Ph.D. in Agriculture Economics from the distinguished Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia in 1998.