Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Sri Mulyani Indrawatiis an Indonesian economist who has been Minister of Finance of Indonesia since 2016; previously she served in the same post from 2005 to 2010. In June 2010 she was appointed as Managing Director of the World Bank Group and resigned as Minister of Finance. On July 27, 2016, Sri Mulyani was reappointed as Minister of Finance in a cabinet reshuffle by President Joko Widodo, replacing Bambang Permadi Soemantri Brodjonegoro...
NationalityIndonesian
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth26 August 1962
CountryIndonesia
became everybody finance harder hold knew management meeting minister prove remember room woman work youngest
I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.
developing evasion global money tax
Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.
improves indonesia maritime production sector
If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019.
business came good indonesia intentions problem rebuild
Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because they came with their own way of doing business; they came with the inflexibility of their own governance.
achieving barriers change countries education emerging force invested legal major potential prevent seeing women
Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls' education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits.
ability bank civil code colonial dating granted greater including individual law marriage married open until women
In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts.
money people
There's broad recognition that you really have to put the money where people are going to self-manage.
fickle fluid
Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.
care far less men paid perform unpaid women work
Women are often paid far less than men, while they also perform most of the world's unpaid care work.
causing conversion towns urban
Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on occasion, ghost towns and waste.
both building contribute economic equal help life men societies stronger women
When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies.
arrive asia cannot greater hours living longer longevity means people prosperity treated work
While prosperity and longevity arrive together, they cannot be treated the same. With greater wealth, people in Asia may not have to work as many hours as they do now. But living longer means they will have to work more years, not fewer.
approaches dollars donor faced millions multitudes poured priorities quickly thousands workers
When millions of dollars and thousands of humanitarian workers poured into Indonesia, we quickly faced the challenge of coordinating our own bureaucracy with the multitudes of approaches and priorities the donor community wanted to pursue.
access critical deliver empowering ensure financial helping helps inclusion lifting matters people plays prosperity role services widely women
Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people.