Title
Director
Company
Nusantara Infrastructure
Bio
John Scott Younger is a recognised leader in infrastructure development across Asia, having held a
range of senior academic, consulting and business development roles in Hong Kong, Thailand and
Indonesia over the past 33 years. He currently serves as Director of PT Nusantara Infrastructure Tbk,
a public listed company in Indonesia, and as Commissioner for the East Bali Poverty Project, a model
in sustainable development. Dr Younger is also President Commissioner of Glendale Partners, a
leading infrastructure, natural resources, renewable energy and consulting firm based in Jakarta,
Indonesia. In addition, he is Chairman of the EuroCham Working Group on Infrastructure, and Senior
Vice-Chairman and the International Business Chamber, with a particular remit to report on
infrastructure. He is a current member of the Eurocham Board and former Member of the Board of the
British Chamber of Commerce (1196-2004 and 2010-2012). Dr Younger has served as project
manager and consultant in many World Bank and ADB funded road and water sector programs, and
was Team Leader for the UK and World Bank funded, award winning Master’s Degree program in
Highway and Transport Engineering at the Institute of Technology Bandung, 1986-93. He has
published many papers in the field of infrastructure and is a regular speaker at conferences and on
discussion panels. He is also a regular columnist of the regional business magazine Globe Asia, a
writer for Forbes, an Honorary Research Fellow of Glasgow University and Fellow of the Linnean
Society. His paper on “Sustainable Development-East Bali Poverty Project” was awarded the 2013
Overseas Prize by the Institution of Civil Engineers. Dr Younger holds degrees in Engineering from
Glasgow, UC Berkeley and Hong Kong. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to civil
engineering and British business interests in Indonesia.
