He was born in Pekanbaru, 3 August 1961. Completed elementary school education from Cendana Elementary School in PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia (PT CPI) Rumbai, Pekanbaru in 1973. Cendana Middle School, PT CPI Rumbai, Pekanbaru in 1976, and High school Cendana, PT CPI Rumbai, Pekanbaru in 1980. Graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Indonesia in 1985.

He obtained his Master of Arts in Management from Canterbury Business School, University of Kent in Canterbury (UKC) in England in 1991 In 2002, he earned a Doctorate in finance from the University of Indonesia’s Faculty of Economics (FE UI). In November 2007, he was confirmed as a Permanent Professor in the field of International Financial Sciences at the University of Indonesia, with an inaugural speech entitled: Financial Market Integration: Towards Acceleration of Asean Capital Market Integration.

Currently, he is active as an economic and financial observer, and writes various books and articles on financial research results, and organizations in national and international scientific journals, and in national newspapers. egration: Towards Acceleration of ASEAN Capital Market Integration. In the academic environment, he is active as a permanent lecturer, both at the diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate level (S2 and S3) at FISIP UI (Department of Administrative Sciences: (a) Financial management, (b) International Finance, (c) Managerial Economics, (d) Planning and Program Evaluation, (e) Strategic Management, (f) Quantitative Techniques, (g) Statistics, and (h) Quantitative Research Methods, and the Department of Communication Sciences (Postgraduate): (a) Managerial Economics, and (d )) Strategic Management); and Teaching Staff in the Management UI Postgraduate Program (International Seminar on Investment and Finance-Doctoral Program-2002, Research Seminar & Empirical Methods, and Asset Management-2009-Doctoral Program-2003, Analysis of Financial Reports-Masters / S2 Programs, since 2008 ); and Lecturer at the University of Bina Nusantara-Curtin Postgraduate University (Double Degree) in Accounting and Information, subjects: Financial Accounting (1995-1999). He was a member of the faculty senate at FISIP in the 2003-2007 period, Managing Director of Business and Bureaucratic Journals, Department of Administrative Sciences, FISIP-UI, 2002-2007, Director of the A3 Competition Grant Program for the Regular S1 Business Administration Program-FISIP-UI, 2006-2008, Chair of the Executive Class Program (Extension), Department of Administrative Sciences, FISIP UI, 1995-1999, and Chair of the FISIP UI Commercial Administration Study Program from 1992 to 2009; and now (since May 2009) has been approved as a Member of the Core Team of the UI Professors Board for Higher Education Lecturer Certification in Indonesia, and the head of the Business School Formation Team representing the Business Administration Study Program, FISIP UI with the Department of Management, FE UI. Since 2004, he has been seconded as a Member of the Review Committee for the Technology and Professional Skills Development Project (TPSDP) project under the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Director General of Higher Education, and Member of the Review Committee for the Accredited Scientific Journal of Higher Education, Ministry of National Education, Republic of Indonesia.

Since 2008, he was appointed as Chair of the Indonesian Business Administration Science Association (AIBI). Since January 26, 2012 was appointed as a member of the ISIP UI Faculty Senate, and on February 13, 2012 he was appointed as the University Academic Senate at UI. Currently approved as Chair of the FIA ​​UI Professor Council, Chair of the FIA ​​UI Financial Institution Cluster Resarch, member of the UI Professor Council and the Academic Senate of the UI.