Ratna is one of the core faculty at Telkom University, a higher education institution under Yayasan Pendidikan Telkom (YPT) in West Java, Indonesia. She comes to the higher education industry with over 8 years of experience in the architectural engineering, mostly with the Japanese construction companies (TAISEI Corporation, MAEDA Corporation, TOBISHIMA Corporation, JICA Agency, and Pacific Consultant International). She has international experience by having lived and worked in Tokyo – JAPAN with TAISEI Corporation as one of the summer intern participants in 1993.
She graduated in 1992 as a Bachelor of Architect Engineer from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia. In the year of 2000, she obtained her Master in Management degree from Asian Institute of Management (AIM), Manila, Philippines under the AIM Dean’s Full Tuition Scholarship Program. On August 30th 2012, she obtained her Doctoral degree from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) majoring in Education Administration for Higher Education. PT. Telkom Education Foundation grants her the scholarship program to study at UPI. Her doctoral research work has focused on Entrepreneurship Education (EE) in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Her dissertation has suggested that the new forms of EE are emerging, both within and outside of formal education systems. She has taught entrepreneurship education and strategic management to master's students for over 2 decades.