Renewables developer Gurīn Vitality has appointed Indonesia’s former international affairs, Retno Marsudi, to its board of administrators.
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Marsudi held the submit of minister for international affairs within the cupboard of Indonesian president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo between 2014 and October 2024, when Jokowi’s time period concluded.
She joins the Singapore-headquartered renewables agency as an unbiased non-executive director to present strategic steering to Gurīn’s administration group and bolster governance, in line with a press assertion.
Her appointment comes the week after the Indonesian authorities introduced a goal of including 75 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power over the following 15 years. Amongst Gurin’s Indonesian ventures is a deal to export 3.4 GW of solar energy to Singapore by way of Vanda RE, a three way partnership it holds a majority stake.
Over 4 many years of public service, Marsudi has served as head of Indonesia’s particular envoy to Myanmar for regional grouping Asean and Indonesian ambassador to Norway, Iceland and the Netherlands. Her most up-to-date high-profile appointment, made this yr, was because the United Nations’ particular envoy on water.
Gurīn chairman Vimal Vallabh stated Marsudi’s “wide-ranging expertise, eager strategic eye and deep regional data” would assist the corporate in its mission to speed up the power transition in Asia.
Gurīn at present has 7 GW of photo voltaic, wind and storage tasks in varied levels of growth in Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines.
