Mahendra Siregar
Mahendra Siregar | |
|---|---|
| Chief of Financial Services Authority | |
| Assumed office 20 July 2022 | |
| President | Joko Widodo |
| Preceded by | Wimboh Santoso |
| Indonesian Ambassador to the United States | |
| In office 8 April 2019 – 25 October 2019 | |
| President | Joko Widodo |
| Preceded by | Budi Bowoleksono |
| Succeeded by | Muhammad Lutfi |
| Deputy Foreign Minister of Indonesia | |
| In office 25 October 2019 – 19 July 2022 | |
| President | Joko Widodo |
| Preceded by | Abdurrahman M. Fachir |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 October 1962 Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Spouse | Ita Siregar |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Diplomat and economist |
Mahendra Siregar (born 17 October 1962 in Jakarta) is the chief of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) of Indonesia. He previously served as Deputy Foreign Minister and was formerly the Indonesian Ambassador to the United States. On 25 October 2019, he was appointed as the deputy minister of foreign affairs supporting Indonesian foreign minister Retno Marsudi in the second Jokowi cabinet appointed two days earlier on 23 October. Earlier, he had been appointed as Ambassador to the US by President Joko Widodo in 2018. He took up his post in Washington DC in early 2019. Mahendra is a respected economist in Indonesia who has held various senior positions within the Indonesian bureaucracy.