Anies Baswedan
Anies Baswedan Anies Rasyid Baswedan, Ph.D., is the current President of Paramadina University in Jakarta, Indonesia. He is the initiator and chairman of Indonesia Mengajar (Teaching Indonesia). As a student, he was actively involved in the Indonesian student movements during Suharto's authoritarian regime. He is known as one of the few Indonesian student leaders from the early 1990s movements to win a Fulbright scholarship and study abroad for graduate school. He is now a prominent political analyst and highly respected young leader in Indonesia. He is also known as one of Indonesia's youngest university presidents. US magazine Foreign Policy named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008 and the World Economic Forum included him in the 2009 Young Global Leaders. In April 2010, the Japanese magazine Foresight, a Tokyo based international affairs magazine, published a special report entitled: 20 Persons 20 Years. This report lists 20 persons to ...