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Gatot Soemartono is an Indonesian academic, researcher, philanthropist, lawyer, consultant, and author who currently serves as the sole Vice-Rector of Tarumanagara University. He earned five degrees from reputable universities, including Gadjah Mada and Harvard.

Education
Soemartono obtained a B.Sc. in Economics from Diponegoro University, an LL.B. and an M.Sc. in Management from Gadjah Mada University, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School as well as other certificates from Harvard Business School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management.

In 2012 he received a doctorate in law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Law Faculty, where he was awarded a Graduate Research Scholarship and the President's Graduate Fellowship. Such awards are reserved for outstanding research scholars at the University.

Credentials
Soemartono holds a senior lectureship in law at the Law Faculty of Tarumanagara University, Jakarta, where he's served as the sole Vice-Rector of the University since 2016. His courses include Business Law, Investment Law, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Environmental Law, and International Business Transactions.

Apart from teaching, he has written books and articles, and is a frequent speaker at international conferences such as the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), Asian Law Institute (ASLI), Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL) and Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU). He also has collaborated with some public bodies on important projects. For example, he was appointed as the National Coordinator for legal verification of assets of the State-Owned Asset Management Company (PT PPA Persero), the successor to the Indonesia Bank Restructuring Agency (BPPN) responsible for managing assets totalling billions of US dollars of the Indonesian defunct banks, Team Leader of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries' research on Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Indonesia Tourism Promotion Board.

Career and Activities
Soemartono received his Bachelor's Degree in Law from the Faculty of Law at Universitas Gadjah Mada, which is the largest and oldest state university in the country. [Gadjah Mada was ranked first in Indonesia in the Times Higher Education Supplement - Quacquarelly Symonds (THES-QS) University Rankings 2007, and recently third by QS World University Rankings 2019]. A year before graduation, he had been in charge of co-ordinating hundreds of students from about fifteen different faculties with their respective development programs (locally known as "Kuliah Kerja Nyata" or KKN) to support people's livelihoods in rural areas, the result of which became the province's pilot project. He also gained some early organizational experience by actively being involved in such student activities as managing educational tours and comparative studies to other law schools across the country. At the end of his study, he focused on Environmental Law and did research on Industrial Pollution Control, the basis for his undergraduate thesis. Previously, he had received his Bachelor of Economics, majoring in Management, from the prestigious Diponegoro University Economics Faculty.

In addition to the Bachelor's Degrees, he received a Master's Degree in Management, also from Universitas Gadjah Mada (the Faculty of Economics and Business), a Master of Laws Degree from Harvard University Law School, and a PhD from National University of Singapore (NUS). These five degrees have offered him an extraordinary perspective on law, economics, and business management. Furthermore, he has attended various courses and training at some renowned institutions, including a training workshop on "Environmental Reform: the Next Generation Project" at Yale Law School and a spring semester course on "The Manager's Legal Function" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management.

He then was accepted as a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Tarumanagara University in Jakarta. At that time, as a representative of Tarumanagara University to BP7 Pusat (Central National Ideology Agency), he was awarded the first rank out of 111 delegates in the national training of P4 (the implementation of the Indonesian state ideology Pancasila). Since then he has been assigned to teach several courses.

Besides teaching, he has had considerable experience working with organizations. For example, from June 2004 to May 2005 he had been assigned as national co-ordinator for legal verifications of 14,635 enterprises’ assets of the State-owned Asset Management Company (PT PPA). PT PPA is the successor to the Indonesia Bank Restructuring Agency (BPPN), responsible for managing assets totalling billions of US dollars of the Indonesian defunct banks. He prepared and directed all program activities, as well as hired lawyers/researchers meeting the standard and trained them able to deal with and understand both the substance (of various main and supporting legal documents) and the new IT operating system. He coordinated 100 legal researchers to verify 14,635 debtors’ assets of Indonesian SMEs, concentrated in 5 provinces (based in Medan, Lampung, Jakarta, Semarang, and Surabaya). He also advised and worked closely with the PPA management, supplied daily reports through an integrated on-line IT system, and submitted a final report for use in PPA’s strategic planning. Previously in November 2002, in response to the Bali bombings, he was appointed as a member of the National Committee for Indonesian Economic Recovery, established by a co-ordinating minister's decree.

He was also appointed as team leader of national research on alternative dispute resolution for Indonesian fishermen with the pilot projects in North Sumatera (as representation to West Indonesia) and South Sulawesi (representation of East Indonesia). He planned, directed and coordinated the team of fishing experts, law professors and senior researchers to decipher the root causes of conflict among fishermen and then suggested means to resolve the conflict through alternative dispute resolution. He led joint research initiatives with the University of North Sumatera in Medan and University of Hasanudin in Makassar, established fisheries-related-conflict resolution agencies there, and worked closely with fishermen associations and non-government organizations (NGOs) in the regions especially for data’s collection. Finally, he made presentations of the research result before local and central governments and submitted a final report which contributed to the national policy on alternative dispute resolution of fisheries.

He was selected to become the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Indonesia Tourism Promotion Board (ITPB or BPPI in Indonesian) responsible to manage Indonesia’s worldwide tourism promotion efforts, placing particular emphasis on key markets such as Singapore, Australia, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan and the US. He turned around the Board’s previous financial difficulties by streamlining the Board’s external relationships and used a “push” strategy for tourism promotion by directly dealing with tourism intermediaries such as travel agents, hotels, airlines, local tourism authorities, etc. (Since to promote tourism products with push strategy required a full support of the domestic tourism players, ITPB did road shows and signed Memoranda of Understanding with some such key tourism regions as Bali, West Java, and Jogjakarta.) He worked closely with all Indonesian tourism associations, and together with the Ministry for Culture and Tourism invited intermediaries and domestic tourism players to participate in world tourism events, including the biggest trade shows in Berlin (ITB) and London (WTM). (All national chairmen of these associations became members of ITPB’s Board of Director, holding regular meetings every two weeks). He also successfully advised the central and local governments on tourism strategies and worked together to boost up Indonesia’s tourism revenues, resulting during the country's economic crisis in an increase of international visitors’ spending from $4.4 billion in 1998 to $5.7 billion in 2001.

In addition, he has been involved as either chairman or secretary of committees in arranging seminars, symposia, and business and academic meetings, such as yearly international events of Tourism Indonesia Mart and Expo (TIME) attended by participants from some 30 countries, a conference of Intellectual Property Rights [in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)] and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)], as well as many others. He has earned honours from those activities.

Membership and Affiliations
Soemartono is an official member of:

1. NUS ToastMasters Club (NUSTM), Singapore

2. Member of BOD, United States Alumni Association (ALUMNAS)

3. The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), The United Kingdom

4. The Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL)

5. Past Treasurer, Indonesia Tourism Council (MPI)

6. Past Director Communications and Gov. Liaison, Harvard Club of Indonesia (HCI)