About

Vivi Yulaswati is Senior Advisor to the Minister of National Development Planning for Social Affairs and Poverty Reduction. She is also curently the head of National Secretariate of SDGs. Her responsibility mainly is to do analysis and provide advise on policies and strategies about social development and accelerating poverty reduction. She has long experiences in developing major poverty reduction programs, including PNPM Community Driven Development, Conditional Cash Transfer, and some subsidy reforms. She has also been involved in the development of National Social Security System, National Strategy for Financial Inclusion, big data research through Global Pulse Initiative, Government to Person (G2P) payment, and integrated service and referral system for comprehensive Social Protection. She holds PhD in Planning and Development from University of Southern California (2004), Master in Urban and Regional Planning from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (1999), bachelor from  
University of Indonesia (1991); and took several training courses in poverty analysis, community empowerment, social protection, financial inclusion, evaluation, change management, and digital transformation.