Ilvan Yahdi

Chief People Officer WPP Media Indonesia

Ilvan Yahdi is a Chief People Officer and transformation-focused HR leader with 15+ years of experience across Indonesia, Singapore, and the UK, including four years at Unilever's London headquarters. He currently serves as Chief People Officer at WPP Media Indonesia, where he leads the full people agenda across talent, succession, organisation design, culture, reward, HR analytics, and business transformation. His career highlights include leading enterprise operating model transformation at WPP Media Indonesia, re-architecting Unilever Indonesia's Beauty & Wellbeing organisation into a social-first model, leading large-scale workforce planning and organisation design at Unilever globally, and managing complex industrial relations and restructuring across major manufacturing sites. Ilvan has been recognised with the GM Award – Best People & Capability from Unilever in 2024 and the Chairman's Award from Unilever in 2022. He holds a Master of Public Policy & Management from Monash University and a Bachelor of Accounting from the University of Indonesia.