John Riady (born 5 May 1985) is CEO of Lippo Karawaci and Director of the Lippo Group,[1] an investment company controlled by the Riady family;[2] Professor of Law at Universitas Pelita Harapan in Indonesia;[3] Editor of the Jakarta Globe, an Indonesian English language newspaper founded in 2009;[4] and Director of Berita Satu Media Holdings,[5] an Indonesian media company.
In 2012, the World Economic Forum appointed Riady to its Global Agenda Council.[8] He is also on the Columbia University Law School International Advisory Board, and is Chairman of KIKAS-KADIN,[9] the US-Indonesia Bilateral Committee within the Indonesian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN).
Riady family
John Riady is the grandson of Mochtar Riady. The family controls the Lippo Group, which manages companies in property, healthcare, financial services, retail, technology and education in Asia. Its investors include GIC and Temasek, the Singapore state investment funds, Mitsui; Khazanah, the Malaysian Sovereign Wealth fund; and CVC Capital Partners, a private equity firm which tripled its money in three years by working with Lippo on the buyout of their Matahari department store chain.[10]
Publications
Riady is a regular columnist on Indonesian social, political and foreign policy issues. Past publications include:
2014
Jokowi’s Generational Leap, The Jakarta Globe, October 26, 2014.
Getting Ready for a Changing China, The Jakarta Globe, November 7, 2013
Riady, John & Fukunaga, Yoshifumi. The Road to Bali: ERIA Perspectives on the WTO Ministerial and Asian Integration, ERIA Research Project Report 2012–13, November 2013.
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