Budi Gunadi Sadikin | |
Office1: | 20th Minister of Health |
Term Start1: | 23 December 2020 |
President1: | Joko Widodo Prabowo Subianto |
Deputy1: | Dante Saksono Harbuwono |
Predecessor1: | Terawan Agus Putranto |
Birth Date: | 6 May 1964 |
Birth Place: | Bandung, Indonesia |
Alma Mater: | (BSc) |
Budi Gunadi Sadikin (born 6 May 1964)[1] is an Indonesian politician. He currently serves as Minister of Health since 2020.[2] [3] He is only the second Health Minister not to graduate from a medical school, and the first since Mananti Sitompul.[4]
In 1988, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Science from the Bandung Institute of Technology.[5]
Budi started his career as IT staff at IBM Asia Pacific in Tokyo from 1988 until 1994. Then, he became a banker as General Manager of Electronic Banking - Chief GM Jakarta - Chief GM HR PT Bank Bali Tbk (1994-1999), and Senior VP Consumer and Commercial Banking ABN Amro Bank Indonesia & Malaysia (1999-2004).[6]
He also served as Executive VP Consumer Banking Bank Danamon (2004-2006), Director of Micro and Retail Banking Bank Mandiri (2006-2013), and President Director of PT Bank Mandiri Tbk (2013-2016).
Starting in 2016, Budi began to enter the government as Special Staff to the Minister of State Owned Enterprises (2016-2017).
In 2017, he was appointed as President Director of PT Inalum. In his era, Inalum bought 51 percent of PT Freeport Indonesia.[7]
He was then appointed as Deputy Minister of State-Owned Enterprises I since November 2019.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, his office set up a special unit to deal with flagging oxygen supplies for medical use.[8]