Background
Soesastro was born in the city of Malang, East Java province, Indonesia.
Soesastro was born in the city of Malang, East Java province, Indonesia.
Soesastro graduated with an aeronautical engineering degree from the Technische Hochschule in Aachen, Germany.
He was one of the founders of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (Center for Strategic and International Studies ), a think tank founded in 1971, where he served as an executive director and economist. The Jakarta Post referred to Soesastro as "one of Indonesia’s foremost economists."
Aside from his studies, Hadi was active in the Indonesian students association, becoming chairman of the West German branch. Soesastro obtained his doctorate from the Frederick South. Pardee Research and Development Graduate School in Santa Monica, California.
He worked as an economist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies , which he helped to foundation
He worked as an advisor to both the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Within the academic field, Soesastro was an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York City. and Australian National University"s Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS) and maintained close links with the activities of the Indonesia project in the RSPAS. Soesastro was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006.
In April 2010 he was placed in intensive care at the Pondok Indah Hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He died at the South Jakarta hospital on May 4, 2010, at the age of 65.
From December 1999 until September 2000, Soesastro served as an economic advisor to Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid as a member of the president"s National Economic Council.