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Belfer Director's Seminar with Gita Wirjawan

RSVP Required Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Please join the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs for a Director's Seminar with Gita Wirjawan, Fisher Family Visiting Fellow at the Belfer Center, moderated by Belfer Center Director Meghan O'Sullivan, on Thursday, April 25th from 2:00 - 3:15 PM in the Belfer Library (L369). They will discuss "Security and Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia and Beyond."

This event will be off-the-record, in-person, and is restricted to Harvard ID holders. If your RSVP has been confirmed, you will receive confirmation and event details prior to the session.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369
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About

Gita Wirjawan is a Fisher Family visiting fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.

His public service has included positions as Indonesia’s minister of trade, chairman of its Investment Coordinating Board, and chair of a 159-nation WTO ministerial conference in 2012 that focused on easing global trade barriers. He led his country’s national badminton association from 2012 to 2016 when Indonesia won 3 gold medals at the World Championships, four titles at the All England Championships, and one gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

As an investment banker, he has held key appointments at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, where he led many mergers, corporate restructuring, corporate financing, and strategic sales involving leading companies in Southeast Asia. His various board roles included service as a commissioner of the state-owned oil giant, Pertamina, and an independent board director of Axiata Group Berhad. He currently sits on the international advisory board of Chubb, the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company.

Gita hosts the educational podcast “Endgame”, focused on the region to promote Southeast Asia’s growth and prosperity. He is a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham School of Politics and International Relations, and a nonresident scholar in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses his research on Southeast Asia’s nation-building directionality.

Additionally, he is a member of the Angsana Council, a non-profit group dedicated to boosting the region’s businesses and economies, and global advisory firm Macro Advisory Partners.