Iman Usman is the Co-Founder and COO of Ruangguru, the largest tech-enabled education provider in Southeast Asia - serving over 20 million students, 300,000 teachers, with 4,000 employees across Southeast Asia. In addition to its business activity, Iman also oversees Ruangguru Foundation - managing multi-million-dollar grants and funding to improve the quality of teachers, employability, and access to learning, impacting >500,000 beneficiaries since 2018.
Iman is also a key opinion leader in youth development in Indonesia. His contribution and commitment to youth empowerment have been recognized globally for its work in founding and leading Indonesian Future Leaders and Indonesian Youth Parliament. He won the 2008 Indonesian Young Leader Award by the President of the Republic of Indonesia, the 2010 Global Changemaker Award, the 2011 Global Teen Leader Award, the 2011 UN Youth Assembly Recognition on Humanitarian Development, among others. In 2016, he was appointed by the Indonesian Government to sit at the Youth Panel of the Education Commission, together with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai. Iman was also included in the list of Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 for Consumer Technology in 2017 and was awarded UNICEF Young Innovator to Watch in 2015 and the Emerging Entrepreneur Award 2019 from Ernst & Young.