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Mari Elka Pangestu is currently on leave from CSIS, but still serves as a Member of the Board of Directors and is involved in its research activities. Dr. Pangestu joined CSIS in 1986 and has served as Head, Department of Economics and as Executive Director. She also serves as a Lecturer on the Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia. Dr. Pangestu earned a Ph.D. degree in 1986 from the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis, USA. Since that time, she has specialized in international trade and foreign investment issues, and has written extensively on banking, finance and macroeconomic issues, including several industry studies.
Dr. Pangestu is coordinator of the PECC, Trade Policy Forum (TPF). Under the TPF aegis coordinated by Dr. Pangestu, TPF developed a set of investment principles for the Asia Pacific region (1993) which was later modified and adopted by APEC as the APEC Non Binding Investment Code (1994). Dr. Pangestu has also been involved in the development of the PECC Competition Principles, which it is hoped will be accepted by APEC this year. Moreover, she has been involved in a number of studies on trade and investment issues prepared for APEC and ABAC. Recently she organized, with the support of the World Bank, a meeting on East Asian Options for the WTO 2000 Round. She is currently editing these papers together with Dr. Will Martin from the World Bank. She is also a consultant for the World Bank on trade issues facing developing economies, especially WTO 2000 issues. In addition, during the last three years she has worked on competition policy issues, writing a paper on trade and competition policy in Indonesia (1996) and two papers on corporate governance in collaboration with Dr. Farid Harianto in 1998/99.
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