Founder Normafa Research Center

Budi Setiawan, Ph.D is a lecturer at Indo Global Mandiri University, Palembang. He has 9 years of experience across finance, investment, and marketing from national and multinational companies. He is passionate about financial inclusion, Fintech, and SME finance.

In 2019, he was selected as a participant in the research training in Banking and Finance program at the University of Limoges (France), and in the Economic Research Methodology Workshop at SGH Warsaw School of Economics (Poland) in 2022, sponsored by the European Union.

Together with his Indonesian and Hungarian colleagues, Budi has initiated the writing of a book chapter entitled “Economic and Business Trajectory: Indonesia, Asia and Europe”, a collaboration between the Indonesian Student Association and the Association of Hungarian PhD and DLA Students (DOSZ).

Budi is an alumnus of the Doctoral School of Management and Business Administration Sciences at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (formerly Szent István University, Hungary) under the Stipendium Hungaricum Programme.

He has published and reviewed several papers in reputable journals indexed by Scopus, ABDC journal, and Web of Science.