Ilham Akbar Habibie currently leads Indonesia’s National ICT Council (WANTIKNAS) and the Agency for Research and Technology of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN).
Besides that, he heads the board of supervisors at The Habibie Center, a Jakarta-based think tank founded by his father late Indonesian president Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie that focuses on democracy and human rights.
Ilham also sits on the advisory board of the Indonesia Economic Forum, while he was recently appointed as a commissioner at Ayoconnect, an Indonesian API platform which aims to democratise the country’s open finance. He likes to read and cook in his spare time.