Rimawan is a senior lecturer and head of the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Business at Gadjah Mada University. His research interests are in the areas of Economics of Crime, Game Theory, Experimental Economics and Impact Evaluation. He is also a resource person for Presidential Task Force for Combating Illegal Fishing for the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia. His previous appointments include: resource person for the Corruption Eradication Commission, Chief Economist of the Competition Commission KPPU, and Research Fellow at the Center for Criminal Justice Economics and Psychology at the University of York in the UK.