Dede Puji Setiono pursues his doctoral degree in public policy at the Oregon State University – Corvallis. His main interest is in public policy issues. He wants to study institutional capacity building and the socio-economic assessment of policy interventions.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in English teaching from UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, and a master’s in development policy from Korea Development Institute’s School of Public Policy and Management, Seoul.

Dede is an administrative staff at Directorate of Islamic Higher Education, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Jakarta.