Kartini's Women

Sri Mulyani Indrawati born in Bandar Lampung - Indonesia, August 26, 1962, age 47 years. Prior to his finance minister, he served as Minister of State for National Development Planning / Head of Bappenas of United Indonesia Cabinet. Sri Mulyani was previously known as an observer in the Indonesian economy. He was Head of Institute for Economic and Community Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia (LPEM-UI) since June 1998. On December 5, 2005, when President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced a Cabinet reshuffle, Sri Mulyani moved to replace Finance Minister Jusuf Anwar.

Since the year 2008, he served as Executive Task Coordinating Minister for Economy, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs after Dr. Boediono was sworn in as Governor of Bank Indonesia. Now, Sri Mulyani became the only first lady who served as World Bank Managing Director who supervises 70 more countries.

He was crowned as the best Finance Minister of Asia for the year 2006 by Emerging Markets on 18 September 2006 at the Annual Meeting between the World Bank and IMF in Singapore. He was also selected as the most influential woman in the world's 23 Forbes Magazine in 2008 and the most influential woman in Indonesia's second Globe Asia magazine in October 2007.

Now he is the first Indonesian woman who once served as Managing Director of the World Bank. This position will be assigned starting June 1, 2010.