Zaki Baridwan is an accounting professor at his undergraduate alma mater, Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In 1995, he established the Accounting Educators Compartment of the Indonesian Institute of Accountants, which he served as chairman. Dr. Baridwan is also a member of the Indonesian Economist Association and in 1997 was appointed as the expert staff for the Supreme Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia. In 2000, he was appointed as the president director of Bank BNI, a public bank that is the second largest in Indonesia, with more than 650 branches within the country, and five overseas branches.
