He graduated in economics at Iowa State University, specialising in monetary policies and international finance, with a master's degree in 1989 and a PhD in 1991.

In October 2019, Global Markets on-line newspaper recognised Perry Warjiyo as Governor of the Year 2019 for the Asia-Pacific region.

"[4] 2018 Shortly after Perry become Governor in mid-2018, international economic conditions led to pressure on the Indonesian exchange rate and the rupiah depreciated noticeably.

In mid-August 2018 when there appeared to be market pressures encouraging a depreciation of the rupiah, Perry announced a further increase in domestic interest rates.

[9] Later, in May, when the rupiah began to weaken as a result of trends in international financial markets, Bank Indonesia indicated that monetary policy would remain firm.

This approach was in contrast to decisions announced at the time in both Malaysia and the Philippines to relax monetary policy somewhat and to lower interest rates.

Perry Warjiyo has an extensive publication record of articles covering a wide range of monetary policy issues in both English and Indonesian.