Lila Dwilita Sari commenced her PhD in the Department of Political and Social Change, at Coral Bell School of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University in 2019. Her research examines the variations of clientelistic politics and how it affects the healthcare services at the sub-national level in Indonesia. Lila has over seventeen years of experience in institutional capacity building and advancing Indonesia’s public sector reforms. Before commencing her PhD she was a Program Manager at AusAID and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Jakarta). She has also served as the Program Manager for the Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (Corruption Eradication Commission). She received a Master in Public Accounting from the University of Indonesia in 2015. Currently, she is finalising her PhD while working on two public sector reform projects (in health security and legal reforms) in Indonesia.