Muhammad specialises in stakeholder engagement, building thought-leadership initiatives, and conducting policy analysis in the energy, manufacturing, sustainability, and consumer goods sectors across Southeast Asia.
Arkan is an Associate at Asia Group Advisors, an Access Partnership company, and is based in our Jakarta office. He specialises in stakeholder engagement, building thought-leadership initiatives, and conducting policy analysis in the energy, manufacturing, sustainability and consumer goods sectors across Southeast Asia.
Before joining Asia Group Advisors, Arkan worked as a Policy Consultant for International Animal Rescue (IAR) Indonesia, where he built a coalition of renewable energy and nature conservation non-profits in advocating for Presidential Regulation No. 98/2021, Indonesia’s first regulation on carbon trading. He also gained experience working at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm.
His career started in Brussels, Belgium for a think tank focused on EU and Southeast Asia. He provided analysis on EU regulations on biopesticides and Indonesia’s first integrated deep sea-port-and-agricultural processing industrial estate project in North Sumatra
Arkan holds a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration and International Economics from KU Leuven, Belgium and spent an exchange year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).