Anindya Novyan Bakrie

Anindya Novyan Bakrie is CEO of Bakrie Telecom, Indonesia's largest publicly-listed CDMA wireless operator with over 13 million customers and is taking an active role in industry consolidation. Anindya is also Chairman of VIVA, Indonesia's fastest growing publicly-listed integrated media and content creation company, with terrestrial TV distribution to over 170 million viewers and the number one Internet portal in Indonesia (‘vivanews.com’).

Anindya is the eldest male of the third generation of Bakrie family, whose business interest controls a range of publicly-listed companies with combined market capitalization of about USD 15 billion. This includes mining, oil and gas, plantations, telecommunications, media, property and infrastructure.

Anindya is also Chairman of Bakrie Global, a USD 3 billion private equity fund focusing on South East Asia’s mining, plantations, property and TMT sectors.

Anindya earned his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University in 1996, and Master of Business Administrations in Global Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2001.

A philanthropist at heart, Anindya established the Bakrie Center Foundation (BCF) in 2010. The BCF has been instrumental in establishing links with top universities at home and abroad to allow young Indonesian scholars to pursue higher education. The foundation has also set up Chairs in Southeast Asian Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC and the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Anindya is the Vice Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry; one of the three presidentially-appointed members of APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) representing Indonesia. He also sits on the board of the International Council of Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and in early 2012 was appointed as a Board of Trustee member of the Eisenhower Fellowship.

Anindya writes regularly on issues that concern Southeast Asia. He has monthly columns in the Jakarta Globe, and writes occasionally for the Jakarta Post and the Wall Street Journal. He is currently working on a book on the challenges facing ASEAN in the post-Cold War era.

Anindya is an avid runner and has completed a couple of international marathons. He is married with 3 children.