Suahasil Nazara

Born in Jakarta on November 23, 1970. He earned a bachelor degree majoring in Economics from Universitas Indonesia in 1994, and his Master's of Science from Cornell University USA in 1997. In 2003, he gained his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.) degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.

Suahasil Nazara started his public service as a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia, since 1999. In 2009, he got his full professorship in Economics. Within the Universitas Indonesia, he served different positions such as the Director of Graduate Program in Economics (2004-2005), the Director of Demographic Institute (2005-2008), and Chair of Economics Department (2009-2013).

Suahasil once served a member of Fiscal Decentralization Expert Team for Minister of Finance (2009-2011). He is also active in the Indonesian Bachelor of Economics Association (ISEI) as an administrator and he was also the Vice Chairman of Regional Autonomy Supervisory Committee in 2009-2015. Other functions he served include the Policy Group Coordinator of Secretariat of Poverty Reduction Acceleration National Team (TNP2K), Vice President Office (2010-2015); and the member of Presidential National Economic Committee (2013-2014).

In the era of President Joko Widodo's administration, he serves as the Acting Head of Fiscal Policy Agency; and on Oktober 31, 2016 was inaugurated as the Chairman of the Fiscal Policy Agency, at the Ministry of Finance.

On October 25, 2019, he was appointed as the Vice Minister of Finance by the President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo. Currently, Suahasil has also been given a mandate by the President as a Chair of the National Economic Recovery Task Force since March 2021 and he is also trusted to be Vice Chairperson of the Job Creation Law Task Force since May 2021.