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‘As the head of legal and compliance of Kalbe Group, a pharmaceutical company based in Indonesia and having presence across Asian and African countries, Maria Teresa Fabiola is continuously encouraging her team and subordinates to broaden their insight and perception, not only in legal theory but also to understand the business practices; not only to understand one’s business but also the sister’s company business practices’: such is the verdict of a nominating source on Fabiola and her considerable abilities in service of Kalbe Farma. Fabiola herself said of her time at Kalbe Farma, ‘I have been with the company since January 2006, and since then have gradually added subsidiaries of Kalbe to deal with in terms of legal matters. I came to my current position in 2015 and am currently handling the legal division of all 37 subsidiaries of the company’. To assist with this, Fabiola has revolutionised the legal department at the company, integrating legal teams across Kalbe Group companies into a single entity, also developing global templates to be used across this function. Lately, Fabiola has been concerned with the setting up of new company subsidiaries in Malaysia, Myanmar and Indonesia as well as the handling of joint ventures both in Indonesia and internationally. ‘All of these have given me lots of opportunity to build my legal knowledge, helping my ability to grow to the level required to handle legal matters across the whole group’, she says.