Anissa Suharsono is Chief Programme Manager for Energy at ERIA. She is an energy policy specialist with more than 15 years of experience in policy research, fiscal and regulatory analysis, energy transition, infrastructure advisory and programme leadership, including extensive international experience.

Before joining ERIA in November 2026, she spent nearly nine years at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), most recently serving as Senior Policy Advisor. Her research expertise spans energy subsidy reform and fiscal policy, power sector reform and state-owned enterprise transitions, transport electrification, carbon pricing, renewable energy, energy transition finance and the political economy of energy transition.

She has led multi-country research and policy programmes, combining quantitative and qualitative policy analysis with government advisory. She has also provided technical and strategic leadership in research design, multidisciplinary team management, partner coordination, budget oversight, stakeholder engagement and project delivery.

• Energy subsidy reform, fiscal policy and political economy analysis

• Power sector and state-owned enterprise transitions

• Transport electrification and carbon pricing

• Renewable energy and energy transition finance

• Policy research, government advisory and stakeholder engagement

• Programme leadership and multi-country research coordination

• Suharsono, A., Bridle, R., Wahida, A., & Maulidia, M. (2026). Indonesia’s Energy Support Measures: Government Exposure to Short-Term Energy Price Spikes and Longer-Term Inflation. International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). https://www.iisd.org/publications/digital-story/indonesia-energy-support-measures
• Suharsono, A. (2026). Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Is Now a Fiscal Imperative. The Jakarta Post. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2026/03/11/fossil-fuel-subsidy-reform-is-now-a-fiscal-imperative
• Halsey, R., Do, N., Goel, S., Sharma, D., Suharsono, A., Beaton, C., & Benoit, P. (2025). State of Transition: How State-Owned Power Companies Can Drive Energy Transition in Emerging Economies. International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/state-power-companies-energy-transition
• Suharsono, A. R., & Nugroho, Y. (2025). Indonesia’s Energy Sector Reforms Under Prabowo: Moving Backwards? ISEAS Perspective, 2025/40. https://www.iseas.edu.sg/articles-commentaries/iseas-perspective/2025-40-indonesias-energy-sector-reforms-under-prabowomoving-backwards-by-anissa-r-suharsono-and-yanuar-nugroho/
• Huda, A. A., Bridle, R., & Suharsono, A. (2025). Indonesian Electric Vehicle Boom: A Temporary Trend or a Long-Term Vision? International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). https://www.iisd.org/articles/deep-dive/indonesian-electric-vehicle-boom-temporary-trend-or-long-term-vision
• Suharsono, A. R., & Nugroho, Y. (2024). Financing Indonesia’s Energy Transition: Will the Next President Finally Spark Change? Fulcrum, ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute. https://fulcrum.sg/article/commentaries/financing-indonesias-energy-transition-will-the-next-president-finally-spark-change/
• Suharsono, A. (2024). How Indonesia’s Incoming President Can Advance the Transition to Clean Energy. International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). https://www.iisd.org/indonesia-president-subianto-transition-clean-energy
• Suharsono, A., & Maulidia, M. (2023). What Can Indonesia Learn from South Africa’s Experience of the Just Energy Transition Process? International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). https://www.iisd.org/publications/brief/indonesia-south-africa-jetp-lessons
• Suharsono, A., Hendriwardani, M., Sumarno, T. B., Kuehl, J., Maulidia, M., & Sanchez, L. (2022). Indonesia’s Energy Support Measures: An Inventory of Incentives Impacting the Energy Transition. International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/indonesia-energy-subsidies
• Bridle, R., Lontoh, L., Gass, P., Suharsono, A., & McCulloch, N. (2019). Getting to 23 Per Cent: Strategies to Scale Up Renewables in Indonesia. International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/getting-23-cent-strategies-scale-renewables-indonesia