Ahmad Hidayat

Born in Banyuwangi, on July 19th, 1966, the 1988 Airlangga University graduate started his career by joining Bank Bali’s Officer Development Program for two years. He went on to become a Section Head of PT Bank Private Develop Finance Company of Indonesia until 1995.

In 2000, Ahmad received his Master of Business Administration degree in finance from the University of Illinois. With a postgraduate degree in hand, the third-best graduate of the 2002 Bank Indonesia Leadership Program, he was appointed as Head of the Central Bank’s Financial Regulation, Planning, and Reporting, and was also named a member of Bank Indonesia Pension Fund’s Supervisory Board in 2014.

In the same year, Ahmad also developed his skills further through a range of courses, such as the 6th SEACEN Intermediate Leadership Course: Leadership in Times of Uncertainty, held by the Seacen Center and BIS (Bank for International Settlements) in 2012; General Management on Pension Funds (MUDP), Cost Accounting and Performance Measurement, organized by Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt; and as a chartered accountant, he joined the Institute of Indonesia Chartered Accountants (IAI) in 2014.

The exposure described above was complemented by his involvement as a member of the Steering Board of Bank Indonesia’s Financial Accounting Policies Committee in 2013, Yasporbi Patron for the year 2014, and attending Management Training for Pension Fund Management – Class XXV, which helped build his capability of running his job as Head of Tax Accounting Group in 2016. A year later, he was promoted to Finance Department Director of Bank Indonesia.