Benedicta Riona Keiko

Benedicta Riona Keiko is a Research Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia, where she works on the pilot adaptation of the Every Child Counts program and an impact evaluation project for improving numeracy learning in Indonesia.

Prior to joining J-PAL in 2026, she worked as a Program Assistant at the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies, supporting the coordination of an international education and knowledge exchange program. In an earlier tenure at J-PAL, she served as a Short-Term Consultant, contributing to intervention development and pilot evaluation of the palm oil replanting project.

Keiko holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations from Universitas Airlangga, and was awarded as the Best Graduate in her faculty graduation cohort.