Anindya Bakrie

Anindya Novyan Bakrie (English: /ænɪndɪə nˈɑːvɪən bˈækɹi/, Indonesian pronunciation: [aˌnindja ˌnɔfjan ˈbakri]; born 10 November 1974), is an Indonesian business magnate, investor and philanthropist. Through his business community leadership roles over the years, he represents Indonesian and Indo-Pacific business community voices in global forums and summits. He is also a pioneer in Indonesia's electric vehicle heavy mobility industry.

Bakrie was appointed Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) for the 2024–2029 term and Indonesia Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council (ABAC), a position he has held since 2009. ABAC is the private-sector arm of the APEC, whose main mandate is to advise the organisation's leaders and officials on issues of interest to business. Bakrie and Indonesian Minister of State-owned Enterprises Erick Thohir are the majority shareholders of English Championship club Oxford United. He is also a governor on the Automotive and New Mobility board of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Bakrie is currently the CEO of Bakrie & Brothers, the original business of the Bakrie Group, itself one of the oldest and largest family-owned conglomerates in Indonesia. Bakrie & Brothers, first established as a general trading company in 1942, focuses its operations across industries including automotive components, building materials, toll roads, power plants, steel pipe manufacturing, news media network. One of the group's legacy businesses is in coal mining (Bumi Resources) and under Bakrie's leadership the business group is now transitioning towards the renewable sector. Past profits accumulated by the Bakrie group from coal mining are now being reinvested into green projects and other efforts towards energy transition. The group's electric vehicle arm VKTR Teknologi Mobilitas (VKTR) partnered with China's BYD in 2018 to supply 52 electric buses for use in Jakarta. In 2023, the group was credited for pioneering the supply of electric buses for public use in an Indonesian city.

Bakrie is the chairman of VKTR Teknologi Mobilitas, and the founder and CEO of the Visi Media Asia (VIVA) Group, which operates television news and sports channel TVOne, entertainment channel ANTV and online news portal VIVA.co.id. He is also the founder of the Bakrie Center Foundation, which serves as a platform for his philanthropic activities.

Bakrie was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 10 November 1974, the elder son of Aburizal Bakrie and Tatty Murnitriati. He is the eldest grandson of Achmad Bakrie, who founded Bakrie Group in 1942, which is now known as Bakrie & Brothers. Bakrie married Firdani Saugi and has three children.

He attended Triguna Elementary School and graduated in 1986 before continuing his secondary education at Pangudi Luhur Catholic High School in Jakarta. He was then enrolled in Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, a high school in the United States. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University, Illinois, in 1996.

Having an urge to pursue more advanced educational credentials and motivation to follow in his father's and grandfather's footsteps in entrepreneurship, Bakrie went on to undertake a postgraduate study and managed to obtain a Master's degree from the Global Management Immersion Experience program at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2001. He then sought to bridge students to be able to pursue education at Stanford Business School through the Bakrie Center Foundation.

Bakrie began his career as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, in the United States in 1996. In 1997, his father, Aburizal Bakrie, asked him to return to Indonesia following the 1998 riots. After receiving his MBA from Stanford, he served as Deputy to Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of Bakrie & Brothers.