Dadang Solihin is a Professional Expert (Taprof) at the National Resilience Institute (Lemhannas RI). He hold S1 from Unpar, S2 from University of Colorado at Denver, S3 from Unpad. He has been a Director of Bappenas for more than 7 years, and the President of the University of Darma Persada Jakarta for 2015-2018. He is the best participant of Diklatpim II 2010 LAN RI and the best participant in the PPRA 2013 Lemhannas RI (Wibawa Seroja Nugraha). In early 2019 he was elected as Chairman of the DKI Regional Research Council for the period 2018-2022. In August 2019 he graduated as the Best Participant in the Senior Planner Training from LPEM-FEB University of Indonesia.