Siti Dewi Sri Ratna Sari, S.S., M.Si. born on May 12, 1970 is the third child of four children from the late H. Drh. Soekartono Adipoetro and the late Hj. R.A. Siti Sumarlinah. She studied her first degree at French Literature study program, University of Indonesia (1988 – 1994), her postgraduate program at Communication Management, University of Indonesia (1996 – 2000) and her doctoral program at Agricultural and Rural Development Communication, IPB University (2017 – 2023) with her dissertation “Communication of Resilience in

Having good skills in English and French plus having studied Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Dutch in accordance with the scope of her previous work as a Public Relations Head at PT. Tanesia, an international cosmetic distributor company from a Japanese multinational company, PT. Mandom Indonesia, Tbk. (1994 – 2003). This position led her to attend various trainings on innovation and strategies for new product launches and executive meetings in Switzerland, France, England, Spain and Singapore. Her career journey then continued to become a Public Relations Manager at PT. Rudy Hadisuwarno.

Foreign language skills also led her to become a language specialist at several International Conferences such as Tenth Non-Aligned Summit X (1992) and The Fifth Extraordinary OIC Summit on Palestine and Al Quds-Al Sharif (2016).

Since 2004, she has been a lecturer in Communication Sciences at various universities in Jakarta, including Mercu Buana University, STIKOM InterStudi, Muhammadiyah University, STBA LIA and finally became a permanent lecturer at Bina Nusantara University. She has also been a guest lecturer at University of Indonesia and Bunda Mulia University thus being a trainer at various national level trainings, the speaker and moderator at national seminars while being a Public Relations consultant on various government projects. She has also presented several papers at international conferences whose proceedings were indexed by Scopus such as ISMEE, ICOBAR and ICSEEIS.

She once accompanied Komisi Penyiaran Indonesia Daerah (KPID) DKI Jakarta as an expert staff in a comparative study to various South Korean TV industries and Korea Communications Commission in Seoul, South Korea (2012). She was also involved in an evaluation survey project from Lembaga Manajemen Universitas Indonesia (LMUI) for Lembaga Manajemen Aset Negara (LMAN) in 2023.

In professional organizations’ activities, she is also active as one of the managers at Ikatan Sarjana Komunikasi Indonesia (ISKI) DKI Jakarta (2013 to present), member of Perhumas Indonesia (2015 to present) and General Secretary of Forum Komunikasi Pembangunan Indonesia Jakarta Raya (FORKAPI) from 2018 to present.