Rate My Professor Sarah Gultom

Sarah Elyzabeth Gultom is an Assistant Professor of Business Innovation at Monash University Indonesia. She holds a PhD in Economics from Monash University Malaysia, awarded on 28 October 2020 for her thesis titled Multidimensional Poverty in Indonesia: An Empirical Application. She also earned a Bachelor of Business and Commerce (Honours) in Banking and Finance from Monash University Malaysia on 9 December 2013. During her studies, she received the Monash University Malaysia Merit Scholarship and the Monash University Honours Degree Scholarship. Gultom has served as a visiting researcher at the SMERU Research Institute Indonesia and worked on research projects for the Department of Economics, School of Business, Monash University Malaysia. She was a guest lecturer at the School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, teaching economic indicators, poverty, and inequality. Additionally, she is one of the founding members of a foundation focusing on rural development in North Sumatra and has experience working for a not-for-profit organisation. She teaches ECI5590 Poverty, inequality and opportunity, ECI5953 Regulation, prices and markets, and BTI5111 Technology: Risk and regulation in the digital age. Gultom accepts PhD students.

Her research specializations lie in development economics, particularly poverty, inequality, and impact evaluation. Specific interests include the measurement and application of multidimensional poverty indices, income and education inequalities, evaluation of anti-poverty programmes, and the role of businesses in Indonesia's economic and social development. Key publications are Inequality and violent conflict: new evidence from selected provinces in Post-Soeharto Indonesia (Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2021, with Tadjoeddin, M. Z., Yumna, A., Rakhmadi, M. F., and Suryahadi, A.) and Estimating the impact of inequality on growth and unemployment in Indonesia (SMERU Research Institute, 2015, with Yumna, A., Rakhmadi, M. F., Hidayat, M. F., and Suryahadi, A.). She presented Unconditional cash transfers and multidimensional poverty: the case of rural-urban migrants in Indonesia at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative Workshop (2018), Development Studies Association Conference (2016), and Human Development and Capability Association Conference (2016). Current projects include Sustainable Development and Climate Change Policy (2023-2024), Preventing Jakarta from Sinking: The Role of Messengers in an Online Experiment (2022-2023), and Fintech for Social Impact: Improving Fintech Lending Capability for Financial Inclusion and Sustainability in Indonesia (2022-2023).