Michelle father, is 3rd richest Indonesian and one of the richest people in the world with an estimated fortune of $1.7 billion. Putra Sampoerna was the owner of Sampoerna cigarettes company before he sold it to Philip Morris for $5.4 billion.
Michelle was born in United states and grown up in Singapore. When her father asked Jacqueline Michelle Sampoerna to return to Indonesia and help realize his dream of improving the country’s education system, her answer was a question: Why me? Michelle, as she is affectionately called, fled to Singapore during the May 1998 anti-Chinese Indonesian riots and was quite frightened of returning. She did not want to come home and stay in Indonesia as Kanis Dursin writes.
But now Jacqueline Michelle Sampoerna is fully inspired by her father Putra Sampoerna’s mission and has developed a passion for it.
Now Sampoerna Foundation has provided scholarships to over 25,000 students from primary to tertiary education levels, both national and overseas, Since its birth in 2001.
One of the foundation’s prestigious scholarship programs is MBA Overseas Scholarship Program, where the foundation sends students to continue their post-graduate studies at the world’s leading business schools, such as Harvard Business School, the Wharton MBA and Kelloggs Business School.
In the past two years, it has launched various quality improvement programs such as the Sampoerna School of Business and Management in cooperation with the Bandung Institute of Science (ITB).
“Our target is that in five to 10 years’ time, Sampoerna SBM-ITB will be listed as one of the best business schools in the Asia-Pacific, at least in top 50 best schools in the region. We want to help produce leaders who can compete with their counterparts from other countries,” Michelle said.
Hope Michelle Sampoerna can make her dream and her father wish comes true.
Photos of Michelle Sampoerna, daughter of Putra Sampoerna and founder of Sampoerna Foundation
Indonesia billionaire Putra Sampoerna
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