Daniel Nugraha

Dr. Nugraha is the Country Director of Swisscontact Cambodia starting from 1 August 2024. He is a highly accomplished team leader with over 20 years of experience overseeing projects and teams of various sizes. His outstanding track record includes spearheading AIP-Rural (Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Rural Economic Development), a flagship initiative recognised as one of the world’s largest agriculture market systems development programmes, with a budget of AUD 112 million and 150+ staff. He played a pivotal role in ensuring the strategic coherence of its four projects, PRISMA (agriculture commodities), ARISA (applied research and innovation), TIRTA (tertiary irrigation), and SAFIRA (value chain finance), to achieve the ambitious goal of increasing the net incomes of 300,000 smallholder farmers across five provinces of Indonesia.

As a seasoned agricultural economist, Dr. Nugraha is a distinguished expert in the systems approach for sustainable development. He has extensive and practical experience in SME development, private sector promotion,  and vocational skills development, making him a sought-after authority in his field. He has a strong passion for developing other people’s talents and skills, making him a dynamic trainer and mentor. He believes in an adaptive management style, striving for organisational and team performance improvements incrementally through iterative learning, changes, and decision making.