Dr. Willem A. Makaliwe is a Senior Economist with over 20 years of experience at the Management Institute of the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia (LM FEB UI), serving as the CEO in 2020-2024. His areas of expertise include industry analysis, financial economics, and corporate restructuring, particularly for clients in the energy, financial services, and manufacturing sectors.

Aside from being a consultant and researcher, he is a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia. He has also appeared regularly as an economic analyst for CNBC, and published his research in various books.

After completing coursework at the University of Essex (UK) and the Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia, he earned a doctorate in monetary economics at the Postgraduate School, University of Indonesia.

He completed a certified executive program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 2016 and Certified Wealth Management (CWM), 2019.

He actively participates at scholarly meetings, including AEA conferences in San Francisco, CA, 2016, and San Antonio, TX, 2024 (the key events in economic research), and seminars in Seoul, 2013, Kyoto, 2014, Vienna, 2015, Indiana, 2017, U. Chicago (Becker-Friedman Institute for Economics), 2022, U. Manchester, 2023, and Cambridge U., 2023.