PROF SATRYO SOEMANTRI BRODJONEGORO is Emeritus Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia, and President of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences. For more than 30 years since 1980, Professor Satryo was a faculty member of the Mechanical Engineering Department at ITB, including serving as Department Chairman (1992 to 1995) and Vice-Dean of Academic Affairs (1995 to 1998). From 1999 to 2007 he served as Director General of Higher Education, Ministry of National Education, Indonesia. He has also been a Fellow of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences since 2008. Prof Brodjonegoro obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985. His research areas include tribology, fracture mechanics, higher education development and policy and more.