Jon Lindborg lead ADB Indonesia

Jon Lindborg lead Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a country director for Indonesia. Lindborg has over 25 years of professional and senior development management experience in Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, South Asia and the Middle East, with a particular focus on private sector development and public-private sector partnership (PPP).

Lindborg is not new to Indonesia. He first served in Indonesia with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as a Private Sector Development Officer from 1988-1993. Later, he was the USAID/Indonesia Deputy Head of Mission during 2002-2005. He was then assigned to the U.S. Embassy Manila for four years as the USAID/Philippines Mission Director before he joined ADB in 2009. At ADB he led the formulation and articulation of policy and strategy to accelerate PPPs in Southeast Asia.

Lindborg joined the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as Advisor for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for the Southeast Asia Department in August 2009. As an Advisor on the PPP, Mr. Lindborg led the formulation and articulation of policy,strategy and programs to accelerate PPP in Southeast Asia. He supported the integration of PPP into ADB operations; monitored investment climate developments in Southeast Asia; and engaged Governments and other stakeholders in policy dialogue on reforms to enhance the incentive framework for greater private sector participation.

A career U.S. Senior Foreign Service Officer, he joined the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in 1987, where he held various progressively responsible technical and program leadership positions in Washington DC, the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Middle East. Before joining the ADB, he was assigned to the U.S. Embassy Manila for four years as the USAID/Philippines Mission Director. In this capacity, he directed the U.S. Government’s bilateral assistance program in the Philippines with a program portfolio of nearly US$600 million.
Prior to the Philippines, he was the USAID/Indonesia Deputy Mission Director at the U.S. Embassy Jakarta and played a leading role in the U.S. Government’s response to the tsunami disaster in Aceh.
Before his senior management positions with USAID, Mr. Lindborg directed economic reform and enterprise development programs as a USAID Private Sector Development Officer in Jordan, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Before joining USAID, Mr. Lindborg was a Country Director for the Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific, manager of his family’s farm in Indiana, USA and a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer and Trainer in the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific.

Lindborg earned a master’s degree from Purdue University, USA (1985) and a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, USA (1975).