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Dr Hilman Palaon is a Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute’s Indo-Pacific Development Centre. His work focuses on digital economy issues in the Indo-Pacific region, including financial inclusion, economic empowerment, and technology innovation.
Dr Palaon brings extensive cross-sector experience to his research, having worked in government, development, engineering, fintech, digital platforms, audit, consulting, and academia. Previous roles include positions at Ernst & Young, USAID, TNP2K (the Indonesian government's National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction), Gojek/GOTO, and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at the University of Cambridge. He has also consulted for the Asian Development Bank, MoneyGram, and several technology firms.
He holds a PhD in Management Science from the Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia, alongside postgraduate qualifications from Germany and Spain in process engineering, global management, and international marketing.
Digitalisation, digital economy, economic development, innovation and technology, social welfare
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