Managing Director & Partner
Jakarta
Edwin Utama has worked at The Boston Consulting Group since 2005. He leads the firm’s Jakarta office, and he has supported BCG’s clients in Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He has worked with financial services and public-sector clients on strategy, organization, and operation improvement assignments and is a core member of the Financial Institutions and Public Sector practices.
Edwin has a special interest in infrastructure. He has worked with governments, infrastructure providers, and infrastructure financiers on purchasing power parity, master plan, productivity enhancement, organization, strategy, and joint ventures.
Before joining BCG, Edwin worked as a manager at Citibank in Indonesia, where he was unit head of strategic operations.
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