Fahmi Irfani joined Lloyd's Register in September 1996 as a field surveyor in Jakarta, and has since been assigned to a number of different countries, including Vietnam and Dubai, working on existing ship surveys, and spent five years from early 2001 until the end of 2005 in Korea working on newbuildings, especially tankers and gas ships.
He returned to Indonesia and was appointed Marine Manager for Indonesia in early 2006. Since 2009 he has served as Country Manager for Indonesia, and as part of an organisational restructuring in Asia also holds the position of South Asia East Business Development Manager, covering Indonesia and Malaysia.