Dr. Sonny Mumbunan
Chairman
Coordinator of the Center for Climate and Sustainable Finance at the University of Indonesia and a Lead Economist at World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia.
Dr. Sonny Mumbunan is a lecturer at the Indonesian International Islamic University (UIII), where he heads the Master’s Program in Public Policy in Climate Change and researches at the Climate Policy Lab. He also founded and coordinates the Center for Climate and Sustainable Finance at the University of Indonesia, demonstrating his leadership in climate and sustainability research.
His career includes serving as Lead Economist at World Resources Institute Indonesia (2017-2022) and as an elected member of the Indonesian Young Academy of Sciences (ALMI), where he was Director of Grants and Partnerships (2020-2022). He has held research fellowships at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Germany and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
Dr. Mumbunan has significantly contributed to Indonesian public policy as a policy advisor to presidential offices, focusing on green economy and data governance. He was the lead author of the One Data Indonesia Blueprint, which established the framework for Presidential Regulation No. 39 of 2019. He holds a Doctorate in Environmental Economics from Leipzig University, Germany.