Soedradjat will become professor

Soedradjat will become professor

Governor of Bank Indonesia J. Soedradjat Djiwandono, 55, will
be inducted on Saturday as professor of the School of Economics
at the University of Indonesia (UI), at the university's Salemba
campus.

At his inducement, Soedradjat is scheduled to present a
scientific paper entitled Macro Economy in the Context of the
Changing World; Challenges for Macro Policy in the Next Century.

Born in Yogyakarta Soedradjat finished his elementary and
junior high school in Purworedjo, Central Java, and completed his
senior high school in Surabaya.

Soedradjat received his masters degree in economics from the
University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, in 1966 and
his masters degree in political economy from Boston University,
in Boston Massachusetts -- also in the US -- in 1978. He went on
to receive his doctoral degree in economics from Boston
University in 1980.

He began his career as a researcher at the Indonesian
Institute of Sciences in 1964 before he moved to the Economic
School of UI in 1979. Soedradjat has also held numerous positions
at government agencies, including a special assistant to the
Trade Minister and head of bureau at the National Development
Planning Board.

Soedradjat was appointed Junior Minister of Trade in 1988 and
Governor of Bank Indonesia in 1993.

A father of two, who married Biantiningsih, he will be 14th
professor at the School of Economics at UI.(has)