Kristianus Isyunanda

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Email: kristianus.isyunanda.23@ucl.ac.uk

Kristianus joined the Faculty of Laws as a MPhil candidate in September 2023. Prior to starting his MPhil/PhD programme, Kristianus studied for a Master of Laws (LLM) degree at Cornell University, United States; and before that attained a Sarjana Hukum - equivalent to Bachelor of Laws (LLB) - from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia in 2013.

Research Supervisors:

• Professor Iris Chiu
• Dr. Alan Brener

Areas of expertise:

Organizational, financial, and monetary law and economics.

Experienced legal advisor with a demonstrated history of central banking, in the areas of payment systems, monetary, and market development

Research interests:

Financial markets law and regulation, capitalism and the law, legal paternalism, banking, derivatives, economic analysis of law.

Professional experience:

• Bank Indonesia, Central Bank of Indonesia (latest position: Legal Advisor, Legal Affairs Department)

Public engagements:

• “Forthcoming World Recession as Global Externality,” The Jakarta Post, 17 October 2022.
• “The Policy Mix Turn: From Disciplining Prices To Resolving Stagflation,” The Jakarta Post, 18 July 2022.
• “Cryptocurrencies: The Anonymity of Future Money,” The Jakarta Post, 11 April 2022.
• “Advancing LCS for the global resurrection,” The Jakarta Post, 22 February 2022.
• “Indonesia’s Future Derivatives Market,” The Jakarta Post, 24 January 2022.
• “Benchmark Rate Reform: Brace For Libor Endgame,” The Jakarta Post, 29 November 2021.
• “Indonesia’s G20 Presidency and Global Macro Collectivity,” The Jakarta Post, 20 September 2021.
• “De-dollarization through the Framework of LCS,” The Jakarta Post, 4 August 2021.
• “Fiscal Dominance to Avert Greater Macro Problems,” The Jakarta Post, 8 July 2021.
• “Positive Trend in Indonesia’s Foreign Reserves,” The Jakarta Post, 19 March 2021.
• “JISDOR: Toward better reference rate practices,” The Jakarta Post, 8 February 2021.
• “Indonesia’s New Direction toward a Modern Money Market,” The Jakarta Post, 17 December 2020.
• “JAIPONG: The Next-Level of RI-Japan Economic Partnership,” The Jakarta Post, 20 October 2020.
• “How To Move On From Economic Contraction,” The Jakarta Post, 21 August 2020.
• “Loosening monetary policy for COVID-19,” The Jakarta Post, 3 July 2020.
• “Covidnomics: new normal?” The Jakarta Post, 15 June 2020.
• “COVID Consequences for Central Banking,” Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), 22 May 2020.
• “Safeguarding Economy through Public-Private Engagement,” The Jakarta Post, 30 April 2020.
• “Policy Mix to Outwork the Coronavirus Outbreak,” The Jakarta Post, 6 April 2020.
• “COVID-19: Rationality Maintains Macroeconomic Immunity,” The Jakarta Post, 24 March 2020.

Public engagements:

• “Pemanfaatan Law and Economics sebagai Metodologi Analisis Hukum di Indonesia (The Use of Law and Economics as a Methodology of Legal Analysis in Indonesia),” Mimbar Hukum UGM Vol.34, No.1, Jun 2022 (written in Bahasa Indonesia).
• “Bank Sentral dan Pandemi Covid-19: Quo Vadis? (Central Bank and COVID-19 Pandemic: Quo Vadis?)” Mimbar Hukum UGM Vol.32, No.3, Oct 2020 (written in Bahasa Indonesia).
• “Collectivity of the Central Bank in a Global Context,” Buletin Hukum Kebanksentralan Vol.17, No.1, Jan – Jun 2020 (ISSN: 1693-3265).