Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd served as Australia’s 26th prime minister from 2007 to 2010, then as minister for foreign affairs; he served a second term as prime minister in 2013. Since then, Rudd has resided in the U.S., where he is recognised as a leading analyst of China. In 2015, he became inaugural president of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. In 2020, he was appointed president and CEO of the Asia Society globally, and in 2022 he founded the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. Rudd received his Ph.D. from Oxford University in 2022 and has written two books on China: “The Avoidable War,” published in 2022, and “On Xi Jinping,” published in 2024 and based on his doctoral thesis. Rudd started his diplomatic career in 1981 with postings to Beijing and Stockholm. He was most recently appointed as Australia’s ambassador to the United States of America, taking up his posting in Washington, D.C., in March 2023.