Choi Kyung-hwan: finance minister outperforms

FinanceAsia is again ranking the finance ministers from 12 leading Asian economies. We will name them from top to bottom, ending in the Finance Minister of the Year.

FinanceAsia's final ranking of the finance ministers of the region's 12 biggest economies.

Jakarta's move to double down on Mulyani Indrawati bears fruit yet again as she stays top of the Asian finance minister pile for the third year in a row.

After a relatively smooth year in 2017, the financial secretary of the Philippines proposed drastic reform last year over the way government approves and allocates its budget with an aim to support long-term economic growth.

Singapore's incumbent finance minister works hard to maintain the city's attractiveness as a global financing hub for private equity and infrastructure funds.

Josh Frydenberg is keeping government spending down, but with an election looming, his influence over Australia's economy may be short lived.