Mari Pangestu

This is a Chinese Indonesian name; the family name is (冯) Pangestu.

Mari Pangestu 馮慧蘭
30th Minister of Trade of Indonesia
Incumbent
Assumed office October 21 2004
President	Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Preceded by	Rini Mariani Soemarno Soewandi
Minister for Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises of Indonesia ad-interim
In office October 1 2008 – October 22 2009
President	Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Preceded by	Suryadharma Ali
Succeeded by	Syarief Hasan
Personal details
Born	October 23, 1956 (1956-10-23) (age 55) Jakarta, Indonesia
Nationality	Indonesia
Spouse(s)	Adi Harsono
Children	Raymond Arya
Alma mater	Australian National University University of California, Davis
Religion	Catholic

Mari Elka Pangestu (traditional Chinese: 馮慧蘭; simplified Chinese: 冯慧兰; pinyin: Féng Huìlán; born October 23, 1956) is the Minister of Trade of Indonesia. She is the first female Chinese Indonesian to hold a cabinet position in Indonesia.

Born in Jakarta, Pangestu obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Australian National University, and her Doctorate in economics from the University of California at Davis, United States, in 1986. Prior to becoming the Minister of Trade, she was active for a long time in various trade forums such as PECC and has been one of the foremost economics experts in Indonesia. She was an instructor in the Faculty of Economics in the University of Indonesia.

As an economist, she is widely published in the Indonesian and international media. She serves on the Board of External Editors of the Asian Journal of Business (University of Michigan) and Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (Australian National University). She is also the co-coordinator of the Task Force on Poverty and Development for the United Nations Millennium Project.

Mari Pangestu is married to Adi Harsono and has two children, Raymond and Arya.

See also

• Famous Indonesian Chinese

External links

• CSIS biographical sketch

Persondata
Name	Pangestu, Mari Elka
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Date of birth	1956
Place of birth	Jakarta, Indonesia
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