Dandy Rafitrandi is a researcher in the Department of Economics at CSIS Indonesia. Currently, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the CSIS Editorial Team and as a Project Director at the Decarbonization for Development (DfD) Lab. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy, under the Promoting Research on Digitalisation in Emerging Powers and Europe towards Sustainable Development (PRODIGEES) Fellowship in 2022. He also served as an Adjunct Lecturer at Prasetiya Mulya University from 2016 to 2021.

He has two main research streams. The first focuses on international trade, cooperation, and regional integration, covering topics such as trade policy and economic cooperation, trade-climate policy, and economic security. The second stream focuses on the digital economy and technology, including digital literacy and digital skills, emerging technologies in the manufacturing sector, and regulatory frameworks in the digital economy.

He holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Indonesia and a Master of Science in Policy Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.