Director, Nations Petroleum; Director, Merrill Lynch Indonesia
Al Njoo is director of Nations Petroleum, Canadian oil and gas (exploration and production) group, and Merrill Lynch Indonesia. Together with Merrill Lynch, he promoted the privatization effort of the government in the 1990s. Before going into business, Mr. Njoo was a corporate banker with the Chase Bank in Jakarta and Hong Kong.
He is a promoter for better education and healthcare in South East Asia, building east-west institutional links, combining east-west approaches, and the use of technology and the internet for higher productivity and cost efficient distribution for learning/education and cultural enrichment. During the early 1990s during the development of the Indonesian capital market (stock exchange), Mr. Njoo established IPAF, the institute to train CFA professionals working with the US ICFA (chartered financial analysts). He has sponsored the building of new schools in Nias, an Indonesian tsunami-destroyed island off the west coast of Sumatra. He has supported gall bladder orphan cancer research and ongoing scholarships to Asian students for PhD studies and research at John Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is a member of the World Presidents Organization (WPO), a global CEO board member of the Wharton Fellows, and a trustee of Sumber Waras Hospital in Jakarta.
