Adrianus Mooy is a widely respected figure behind the growth of modern Indonesian economy. He was the Indonesian Central Bank Governor and International Monetary Fund’s Governor for Indonesia between 1988 and 1993. Later he was appointed as the Indonesian Ambassador to the European Communities and the Under-Secretary General/Executive Secretary of the United Nations ESCAP. After the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, he helped rebuilding Indonesia’s economy as the Senior Advisor to the United Nations Support Facility for Indonesian Recovery. He is the Founder of Strategic Asia consulting firm and the Senior Advisor to the Pelita Harapan University.

Edwin Soeryadjaya is the Founding Partner and Chairman of Saratoga Asia Fund II, a private equity firm. His business ventures include coal mining (Indonesia’s second largest), coal terminal, dry bulk barging and shipping, power plant, palm plantation, telecom operator, toll road and oil and gas. Besides being a significant force in business, Edwin is also as dedicated to educational and social service. He is the founding member of WFP Asia Philanthropists Trust and serves on the Board of Trustees of Ora Et Labora School and the Indonesian Christian University.

is the Executive Director of Leimena Institute in Jakarta. He has been leading the development of the Cross-Cultural Religious Literacy program in Indonesia that since 2021 has trained thousands of teachers across the nation to build competencies in promoting peaceful coexistence and collaboration in a multifaith and multicultural society. Under his leadership, Leimena Institute has fostered partnership with the Indonesian government and more than two dozens leading education and religious institutions. He wrote the chapter on Indonesia in The Routledge Handbook of Religious Literacy, Pluralism, and Global Engagement (2021). Before co-founding the institute in 2005, he was a technology and management consultant at Accenture in Indonesia and Singapore. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees in electrical and computer engineering from University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA). The Henry Martyn Institute – International Centre for Research, Interfaith Relations and Reconciliation, founded in 1930 in Hyderabad, India, awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.

Dr. Alwi Shihab is Senior Fellow at the Leimena Institute. He was the Indonesian President’s Special Envoy to the Middle East and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in 2016-2019, Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare in 2004-2005, and Foreign Minister in 1999-2001. A leading expert on interfaith relations, he is a member of the Board of Trustees at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut. He has taught and served in the boards of various institutions, including Harvard University, Temple University, Fetzer Institute, American Academy of Religion, and University of Indonesia. He has written many books, including the best selling book, “Inclusive Islam: Toward an open attitude in religion.” With his extensive experiences as executive and advisor in major corporates, he was appointed as Secretary General of the Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 2009. He holds two master degrees from Al-Azhar University (Egypt) and Temple University (USA), and two PhDs from Ain Shams University (Egypt) and Temple University (USA). He did his post-doctoral study at Harvard University.

Prof. Dr. M. Amin Abdullah is Senior Fellow at Leimena Institute and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Yogyakarta. As the Rector in 2002-2010, he successfully led the transformation of Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic Religion Institute to become a full-fledged university. He is also the Cultural Commission’s Chairman of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI). His writings have brought the attention to a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding Islam and the Qur’an that is more open to diversity and modernity. His books, for example Islamic Studies in Higher Education (2006) and Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary: Methods of Religious Studies and Islamic Studies in Contemporary Era (2020), have received enthusiastic responses from scholars in education and Islamic studies in Indonesia and other countries. He served as Vice President of Muhammadiyah in 2000-2005 and Chairman of Muhammadiyah’s Fatwa and Islamic Research Council in 1995-2000. He received his doctoral degree in philosophy from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.

Maruarar Siahaan is Senior Fellow at the Leimena Institute. He is a professor of law and former Rector of the Indonesian Christian University in Jakarta. He served as a judge for 35 years, from District Courts to High Courts in Indonesia, including as a Chief Judge of the High Courts in Bengkulu and North Sumatra provinces. Then in 2003, nominated by the Supreme Court, he was appointed as one of the first Justices of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia which was newly created by the Constitutional Amendment. He retired from the Constitutional Court in 2010. In 1995–1997, he represented Indonesia in the United Nations’ Ad Hoc Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court. He is the author of The 1945 Constitution: A Living Constitution (2008) and Procedural Law of the Indonesian Constitutional Court (2011). He received his Doctoral degree in Constitutional Law from Diponegoro University in Semarang, Indonesia.