The Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia (FEB UI) and the T20 Task Force 5 (TF5) team, in collaboration with the University of Oxford’s Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), are hosting a culminative Side Event, which acts as the final and concluding forum of a series of discussions led by the T20’s Task Force 5, on solutions and policy recommendations to the challenges G20 nations are facing with regard to poverty, inequality, human capital and wellbeing.

Sudarno is an economist and the first director of The SMERU Research Institute. At the moment, he serves as a Senior Research Fellow in The SMERU Research Institute. Moreover, his current position as a Policy Adviser at the National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K) under the Office of the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia shows his strong link to Indonesian policymakers. He holds a Ph.D. and an MA from Vanderbilt University, all in economics. He is a former head of Statistic Society Forum in Indonesia and was a visiting fellow at the Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF) at Stanford University. He has extensive experience in leading large-scale research projects, including A Study on Teacher Absenteeism. His works have been published in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Development Economics, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.