Hadi Soesastro (April 30, 1945 – May 4, 2010) was an Indonesian economist, academic and public intellectual. He was one of the founders of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a think tank founded in 1971, where he served as an executive director and economist.[1][2] The Jakarta Post referred to Soesastro as "one of Indonesia’s foremost economists." [2]
Soesastro was born in the city of Malang, East Java province, Indonesia. He was of Chinese Indonesian ethnicity and his Chinese name was Tan Yueh Ming (陈悅敏), Tan being the surname. [1] (Indonesian).
Soesastro obtained his doctorate from the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, California.[1]
He worked as an economist at the CSIS, which he helped to found.[1] He worked as an advisor to both the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.[2] From December 1999 until September 2000, Soesastro served as an economic advisor to Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid as a member of the president's National Economic Council.[1]
Within the academic field, Soesastro was an adjunct professor at Australian National University's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS)[2] and maintained close links with the activities of the Indonesia project in the RSPAS. He also taught at several Indonesian universities and Columbia University in New York City.[2]
Soesastro was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006.[1] In April 2010 he was placed in intensive care at the Pondok Indah Hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He died at the South Jakarta hospital on May 4, 2010, at the age of 65.[1][2] His funeral was held at the Oasis Crematorium, Bitung in Tangerang.[1] Soesastro was survived by his wife, Janti Solihin, and their sons, Agus and Albert.[1]