The International Journal of Accounting and Business Society Vol. 27, No. 2 August 2019 © Centre for Indonesian Accounting and Management Research Postgraduate Program, Brawijaya University 1 BOARD OF DIRECTOR’S CHARACTERISTICS, INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL, AND BANK PERFORMANCE An empirical examination of Indonesian Banking Sector Annisa Hilmy Rositha 1* , Nila Firdausi 2 , and Ari Darmawan 2 1 Master Program of Business Administration, University of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia 2 Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Administrative Sciences, University of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia Abstract The purpose of this study t o examine the effect of board of director’s characteristics that formed by proportion of independent directors, proportion of women directors, number of the board of directors, and frequency of board meeting on intellectual capital and bank performance. This study also examine the effect of intellectual capital on bank performance. This research applies explanatory research with a quantitative approach. The data derived from secondary bank annual report data. The total sample consisted of 12 Indonesian Conventional Banks for a period of 3 years ranging from 2015 to 2017. Partial Least Square (PLS) Analysis is used to analyze the collected data. The results of this study indicated that the board of director’s characteristics has a positive and significant influence on intellectual capital. This finding provides a recent insight that the background of the board of directors depicted through the presence of independent directors and female directors on the board of directors has a positive impact on the performance of the company's intellectual capital. Further testing, the board of director’s characteristics has a positive and significant influence on bank performance. The results of this study indicate that the number of board of directors, the presence of female directors and independent directors, and the frequency of board of directors' meetings in