Gunawan Ardhi Wardhana

Gunawan Ardhi Wardhana, born Ang Giok Goen (; 26 October 193214 September 1991) was an Indonesian academic and professor of economics at the University of Indonesia. He was the inaugural dean of the postgraduate faculty of the University of Indonesia, serving from its establishment in 1982 until 1989.

Early life and education Wardhana was born in Surakarta on 26 October 1932 as the eldest son of Ang Poo Hin and Ong Jan Nio. Wardhana was raised in Surakarta and completed his elementary and middle school in the city before moving to Jakarta for high school. He studied at the 4th State High School in Gambir and graduated in 1952. He then studied business economics at the University of Indonesia on the same year after graduating from high school. and obtained his baccalaureate (sarjana muda, , equivalent to an associate degree in the Western higher education system) in 1955. Gunawan received a full bachelor's degree in economics three years later and was made a full employee of the university shortly afterwards.

Career Upon his return from the United States, Wardhana began teaching at the university. Among the students that he taught was Nasrudin Sumintapura, who later became the deputy minister of finance in Suharto's Fifth Development Cabinet. He became the chair of the business economics department in the faculty from 1961 to 1963 and again from 1968 to 1970. He briefly became the co-director of the Management Development Training in the faculty from 1962 to 1963. On 1 March 1980, Wardhana was appointed as a full professor in economics, He was re-appointed for a second term in April 1986 and served until 1989.

Aside from his permanent posts, Wardhana also held a number of ad-hoc committees in the faculty. He was a member of the faculty's curriculum development committee from 1961 to 1962, the faculty's library committee from 1968 to 1970, and a dissertation proposal assessor from 1978 to 1980. He was part of the editorial board of the Indonesian Management and Businessman magazine and the Journal of American Studies.