Join us for a conversation with Dr. Denni Purbasari, who will be discussing her work with Indonesia's Kartu Prakerja Program, which is a large-scale program for Indonesians looking to develop the skills which are needed to enter the modern workforce.

About the Speaker

Denni Puspa Purbasari has been the Executive Director of the Project Management Office (PMO) of the Kartu Prakerja Program at the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs since March 2020. She is also a lecturer at the Department of Economics, Universitas Gadjah Mada. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2006. Before serving at PMO Kartu Prakerja Program, she was the Economic Deputy Chief of Staff of the Preseident of the Republic of Indonesia in 2015-2020, and the Assistant to the Economic Advisor for the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia in 2009-2014. She is the recipient of the Satya Lencana Karya Satya X, Fulbright Scholarship, Stanford Calderwood Student Teaching Award, James C. Campbell Thesis Research Award, Beverly Sears Student Research AWard, and the University of Colorado Fellowship.