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.

Muhammad Halley Yudhistira completed his undergraduate education in 2007 in the Department of Economics (Regional and Urban Economics), Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia (FEB UI) with a cum laude degree. Then Yudhistira continued his education at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and earned a Master of Arts in Public Economics in 2011. Meanwhile, in 2015, Yudhistira earned his doctorate as a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Economics at the National Graduate Institute. for Policy Studies (GRIPS), in Tokyo, Japan, funded by the Mitsubishi Scholarship for Doctor of Philosophy.

Yudhistira started working as an assistant lecturer at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia in 2007. Then he became a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia, and has been a Research Fellow at LPEM FEBUI since 2015. Yudhistira also serves as Managing Editor of the Indonesian Development Economics Journal from 2014 until now. Research areas of interest are applied econometrics, regional and urban economics, theoretical review, and empirical studies of transportation economics.