Background
Agustiawan was born in Bandung, West Java in 1958. She is the daughter of R. Asiah and Doctor Sumiyatno, the first Indonesian envoy to the World Health Organization and former president of the Biofarma pharmaceutical company.
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Education
In 1983, she graduated from the Bandung Institute of Technology with a degree in Engineering physics.
Career
In 2011, Forbes named her first on its list of "Asia"s 50 Power Businesswomen". She had initially intended to become a professor, but at the urging of her father she decided to pursue a career in business. After graduating, she took a job at Mobil, working as a quality controller for seismic drilling projects.
She later worked as a project leader in the company"s Exploration Computing Department.
In 1998, she left Mobil for Landmark Concurrent Solusi, the Indonesian branch of Landmark Graphics Corporation. As a result of Landmark"s merger with Halliburton, Agustiawan was promoted to project manager of oil and gas accounts in 2002.
In 2006, she became the first woman head of Pertamina"s upstream division. In February 2009 she was appointed Chief Executive Officer and president director of the company, making her the first female to hold the position.
During her tenure as Chief Executive Officer she oversaw the development of alternative energy sources such as coal bed methane extraction and established a liquefied natural gas distribution system with Perusahaan Listrik Negara.
In June 2013 she was reappointed by the government for a second five-year term as Chief Executive Officer of Pertamina. She was the first Chief Executive Officer of Pertamina for many years to complete her full term. In August 2014 it was announced that she had resigned.
The minister for state-owned enterprises, Dahlan Iskan, was reported as saying that she had been offered teaching duties at Harvard University in the United States and that she would immediately take up the offer.
At Harvard, she subsequently took up a position as an International Council Member within the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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