Chairwoman & Founder
Indonesia Employers Association (APINDO) & Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development (IBCSD)
As Owner and Chief Executive Officer of the Sintesa Group
(www.sintesagroup.com), Shinta is responsible for the
Management and Expansion of the Group’s business interests
in Indonesia. The Sintesa Group is an Indonesian group with 16
subsidiaries, which operates under four main pillars: Property, Energy, Industrial Products,
and Consumer Products.
As a businesswoman, Shinta is involved in numerous business and social activities, including
as the Chairman of Employers’ Association of Indonesia (APINDO), Coordinating Vice
Chairwoman III for Maritime, Investment and Foreign Affairs of Indonesian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry (KADIN Indonesia), Vice Chair, Regional Coordinator for the
Asia-Pacific, and Executive Board Member of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Vice
Chair of ESCAP Sustainable Business Network (ESBN), Founder of Indonesia Business Council
for Sustainable Development (IBCSD), Indonesia Business Coalition for Women
Empowerment (IBCWE), and Angel Investment Network Indonesia (ANGIN), Board of
Trustees of Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Indonesia II, Board of Trustees of the
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Member of APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC)
Indonesia, and Strategic Advisor for the Business for Nature (BfN).
Shinta’s extensive role in advancing sustainable investment in Indonesia and her strong
engagement with the private sector have led to her selection as one of 30 global corporate
leaders who are members of the United Nations Global Investors for Sustainable
Development (GISD Alliance). In October 2023, she was appointed as the Co-chair of the
Alliance for a period of two years. Prior to that, she was also elected to serve as Chair of B20
Indonesia during the Indonesian Presidency at the 2022 G20 Summit.
Shinta graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University New York in 1989 and
Executive Education at Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 2002.
As part of her achievement, she was named SWA Magazine’s Indonesia Most Powerful
Women 2023, Fortune Indonesia’s 20 Most Powerful Women 2022, The Asia Corporate
Excellence & Sustainability (ACES) Woman Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019, FORBES Asia’s 50
Powerful Businesswomen (2012, 2013, & 2016), Bisnis Indonesia Award’s 30 Best CEOs 2015,
Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards’ Women Entrepreneur of the Year 2014, Asia’s Leading
Businesswoman of the Year Award 2013 by Women in Leadership Forum, Asian Business
Leadership Forum (ABLF) Abu Dhabi Women of Power 2012, among many others. In 2013,
she was decorated l’Ordine della Stella d’Italia from the Government of the Republic of Italy
and in 2017, as the Commander of the Polar Star by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and the
Commander of the Order of Leopold of Belgium.