Shinta Kamdani

Shinta Kamdani

• CEO, Sintesa

As Owner and Chief Executive Officer of the Sintesa Group (www.sintesagroup.com), Shinta is responsible for the Management and Expansion of the Group’s business interests in Indonesia. The Sintesa Group is an Indonesian group with 16 subsidiaries that operates under four main pillars: Property, Energy, Industrial Products, and Consumer Products.

As a businesswoman, Shinta is involved in numerous business and social activities, including as the Chairman of Employers’ Association of Indonesia (APINDO); Coordinating Vice Chairman for Human Development, Culture, and Sustainable Development of Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN Indonesia); Vice Chair and Executive Board Member of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); Chair of ESCAP Sustainable Business Network (ESBN); Commissioner of Danone Indonesia (PT Tirta Investama); Founder of Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development (IBCSD), Indonesia Business Coalition for Women Empowerment (IBCWE), and Angel Investment Network Indonesia (ANGIN); Board of Trustees of Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Indonesia II; Board of Trustees of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF); Member of APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Indonesia; and Strategic Advisor for the Business for Nature (BfN).

Shinta’s extensive role in advancing sustainable investment in Indonesia and her strong engagement with the private sector have led to her selection as one of 30 global corporate leaders who are members of the United Nations Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD Alliance). In October 2023, she was appointed as the Co-chair of the Alliance. Prior to that, she was also elected to serve as Chair of B20 Indonesia during the Indonesian Presidency at the 2022 G20 Summit.

Shinta graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University New York in 1989 and Executive Education at Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 2002. As part of her achievement, she was named Asian Business Leadership Forum (ABLF) Abu Dhabi Women of Power 2012, Asia’s Leading Businesswoman of the Year Award 2013 by Women in Leadership Forum, Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards’ Women Entrepreneur of the Year 2014, Bisnis Indonesia Award’s 30 Best CEOs 2015, The Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability (ACES) Woman Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019, Fortune Indonesia’s 20 Most Powerful Women 2022, SWA Magazine’s Indonesia Most Powerful Women 2023, as well as FORBES Asia’s 50 Over 50 (2025) and 50 Powerful Businesswomen (2012, 2013, 2016), among many others. In 2013, she was decorated l’Ordine della Stella d’Italia by the Government of the Republic of Italy and in 2017, as the Commander of the Polar Star by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and the Commander of the Order of Leopold of Belgium.