Irma is a Water Engineer with more than 25 years of working experience in water sector in Indonesia. Since joining the World Bank in 2009, she has worked on various projects related to urban water supply and sanitation infrastructure development, rural and community-based water supply and sanitation, utility reforms, and sector financing. In Indonesia, she is the focal point for water supply and sanitation sector dialogue with the Government and other development partners on policy dialogue, strategy and business development, knowledge sharing, collaboration and coordination, etc.
Before joining the World Bank, she worked as Program Management Specialist for Water and Environment Office of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Indonesia. She also spent more than a decade in the private sector as Strategic Planning Manager at the private water utility in Jakarta and as Water Engineer, then Technical Manager, in a consultant engineering company.
An Indonesian national, she holds a Master’s degree in Water and Environmental Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering.