Indonesian Citizen, based in Indonesia. Suryo Utomo obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Taxation in 2019 from University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia and Master of Business Taxation in 1998 from University of Southern California, United States of America. He earned his Bachelor of Economics from Diponegoro University, Semarang in 1992.
Currently he also serves as Director General of Taxes – Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia since 2019. Previously he served as Expert Staff of the Minister of Finance for Tax Compliance (2015-2019) and other positions in Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia such as, Director of Extensification and Assessment (2015), Director of Taxation Regulations I (2010-2015), Head of the Regional Office of the Directorate General of Tax, Central Java I (2009-2010), Head of the Big Taxpayer Tax Office I (2008-2009), Head of the Foreign Investment Tax Service Office III (2006-2008), Head of Sub Directorate for Industrial Value Added (2002-2006), Head of Corporate Income Tax Section (2002), and Head of Industrial VAT Section (1998-2002).
He was appointed as Commissioner of PT SMI since November 29th, 2019 pursuant to the Minister of Finance Decree No. 889/KMK.06/2019.