Nabiel Makarim
Nabiel Makarim was Indonesia's Minister of the Environment and Forestry from 2001 to 2004.
Early life
Makarim graduated from Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, where he received his Master of Public Administration in 1984. Makarim also received his master's degree in Management from the Sloan Fellows program of the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1985.Career
As minister, Makarim developed the Good Environmental Governance program, which rates the environmental performance of cities and local environmental agencies. Makarim has spent most of his professional life in the environmental field; however, he was one of eleven members of the Indonesian Commission for Business Supervision that was appointed by the President in June 2000.From 1990 to 1999, he was the Deputy of Pollution Control for the Indonesian Environmental Protection Agency. In 1995, Makarim created and launched the Program for Pollution Control, Evaluation and Rating to collect and disseminate information about the environmental performance of leading private-sector polluters.
Makarim worked for Harvard Institute for International Development as a policy analyst from 1986 to 1989. At the same time, he also taught a graduate level economics course at the University of Indonesia in 1986 to 1989. He was the Assistant Minister of Environment from 1989 to 1992 in the office of the Ministry of the Environment.