10 Facts About Boediono

Boediono is an Indonesian politician and economist who served as the 11th vice president of Indonesia from 2009 to 2014.

Boediono became vice president after winning the 2009 presidential election together with the then-incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Boediono received his early education in primary school in Blitar, East Java.

Boediono worked in the Indonesia Project at the Australian National University in the early 1970s as a research assistant in economics.

Boediono was listed as one of the Wharton School's 125 Influential People and Ideas in 2007 and was dubbed "Indonesia's financial rudder".

Boediono was a Bank of Indonesia deputy governor in charge of fiscal monetary policy from 1997 to 1998 and served as State Minister of National Planning and Development from 1998 to October 1999.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appointed Boediono as Coordinating Minister for the Economy during his first cabinet reshuffle in 2005, replacing Aburizal Bakrie.

Boediono is a professor of economics at Gadjah Mada University where he has taught various courses on macroeconomics and monetary policy since the early 1970s.

Since he was appointed a staff member in the Faculty of Economics, Gadjah Mada University, in the early 1970s, Boediono has lectured and published widely on topics relating to contemporary issues of economic policy in Indonesia.

Boediono has received honorary degrees from the three Australian universities which he studied and worked between the early 1960s and 1970s.