Pihri Buhaerah, known as Pihri, is researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) for economic policy expertise. Pihri finished his undergraduate education in Economics and Development Studies, Universitas Padjadjaran in 2003. After that, Pihri continued his master's degree at the Crawford School of Public Policy - the Australian National University (ANU) in the International and Development Economic (IDEC) program and graduated in 2012. In addition as researcher, Pihri works as teaching staff at the Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas Padjadjaran (Unpad), Azzahra Islamic University, and Persada Indonesia Yai University (UPI YAI). Pihri has also collaborated with other institutions such as the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy (Kemenparekraf), the Food and Drug Administration (BPOM), the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU), PT. LAPI ITB, Prakarsa Association, and International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID). Currently Pihri is also recorded as research associate at The Indonesian Institute (TII). In addition, Pihri also actively writes scientific and popular articles and some of them have been published in the form of journals, books, and opinion columns in print and electronic media such as Kompas, Media Indonesia, Kontan, Bisnis Indonesia, Geotimes, and others. Pihri can be contacted at pihri@lipi.go.id or pihri.buhaerah@gmail.com