Nadiem Makarim

  • Published on 27/02/2025 GMT+7

  • Reading time 5 minutes

  • Author: Julian Isaac

Nadiem Makarim

Nadiem Makarim

Nadiem Makarim was born in 1984, in Singapore to Nono Anwar Makarimand Atika Algadri. His father Nono is an activist and a famous lawyer of Minang-Arabic descent. While his mother Atika Algadri is a free-lance writer and a descendant of the famous Hamid Algadri, a pioneer of Indonesian independence. Makarim is the current Minister of Education and Culture.

Makarim took his education from elementary school to high school, while moving around and relocating from Jakarta to Singapore. He finished his high school in Singapore, continued taking International Relations at Brown University, United States. He managed to take a student exchange program to London School of Economics. Later, he took his masters in Harvard Business School in Business Administration.

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