Sudarno Sumarto

Before coming to CID, Harvard, Sudarno Sumarto served as a policy adviser for the National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K) under the Office of the Vice President of Indonesia from 2010 to 2024 and was a senior research fellow at the SMERU Research Institute. He holds a PhD and MA from Vanderbilt University and a BSc in economics from Satya Wacana Christian University. In addition, he was a visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University (2009–10).

Sudarno has co-authored over sixty articles, reports, and papers on development, poverty, education, healthcare, and welfare policy, published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review and the Journal of Public Economics. At Harvard, his research focuses on documenting two decades of welfare policy reform in Indonesia, particularly the role of evidence-based policymaking. He is also involved in collaborative policy evaluation projects with Harvard Kennedy School and the Government of Indonesia.