Kalimantan Gold announces board changes
Monday, April 15 2013 - 01:45 PM WIB
Calgary-based Kalimantan Gold Corporation Limited recently announced on Monday the appointment of Pudji Wahjuni Purbo as an independent non-executive director of the company, filling the position left by Francis Xavier De Souza, in addition to her appointment also as member of the company's audit committee.
?The company is extremely fortunate to have attracted a new director of such a high caliber. Mrs Purbo?s specialist legal expertise and resource experience in Indonesia is a great asset to the Company in the rapidly evolving Indonesian legal and regulatory framework we face today,? company CEO Faldi Ismail said.
Purbo was an associate at Makarim and Taira S., an Indonesia-based law firm where she was a partner from 2002 until 2012, representing major multinational mining companies in Indonesia. Purbo was educated at Fordham School of Law, Fordham University, New York, USA, 1999; and Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 1984. She is a member of PERADI (the Indonesian Association of Indonesian Lawyers).
As a specialist in natural resource law in Indonesia, particularly in energy, mining and oil & gas, Purbo also has experience in project finance, merger, acquisitions, corporate and commercial law. She is a member of Masyarakat Ketenagalistrikan Indonesia (MKI, Indonesian Electrical Power Society) where she was Chairperson of Legal & Regulatory Advocacy. She is now a member of the Advisory Council and Board of Experts of MKI. She also co-founded Forum Hukum Energi in 2005 a forum for discussions between legal professionals and the government.
Purbo is now on a leave of absence from Makarim & Taira S to accompany her husband to his post as the Indonesian Ambassador to Slovakia.
Editing by Er Audy Zandri