Ir. Raj Kannan is a chartered engineer with over 28 years of experience in leading the delivery of major infrastructure and energy deals and designing and implementing economic growth strategies for governments and corporates within the Asia Pacific Region. He has undertaken these deals in Australia, China, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.

Within Indonesia, he was the lead adviser to the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs, for the National Strategic Projects involving over $180billion of infrastructure and renewable energy projects. He led the development of Indonesia’s 5-year economic master plan called RPJMN 2015-2019. He established and interim managed an infrastructure bank, called PT Indonesia Infrastructure Finance for the Indonesian Ministry of Finance, and established and acted as the program manager for KPPIP, an agency that coordinates all priority and strategic projects for the government. He was also the adviser to the “Indonesia Terang” program for rural electrification in Eastern Indonesia under the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.

Raj joined Deloitte 6-years ago via the acquisition of his private firm (Tusk Advisory), which was a leading adviser to the Government of Indonesia. Within Deloitte Raj has held several leadership roles, including as the leader for Government & Public Services for Indonesia, SEA leader for International Development Organizations. He is currently the Asia Pacific and SEA leader for Infrastructure & Real Estate and Industry leader for Energy, Resources & Industrials. Raj is based in Jakarta.

Raj is frequent speaker at major conferences and is also an Adjunct Faculty at Singapore Management University on both infrastructure and energy transition related subjects.