Kevin Rudd is Australia’s Ambassador to the United States of America, a position he has held in Washington since March 2023. Before his ambassadorship, Rudd served as Australia’s twenty-sixth Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Minister for Foreign Affairs before a second term in 2013. He was a Member for Griffith in the Australian Parliament from 1998 to 2013.

Since leaving government, Rudd has resided in the United States, where he is recognized as a leading analyst of China. In 2015, he became the 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. In 2019, Rudd was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for eminent service to Indigenous reconciliation, innovative economic initiatives, and major policy reform, and through senior advisory roles with international organizations.

He holds honorary positions at the Asia Society, Atlantic Council, Bloomberg New Economy Forum, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation, Chatham House, Friends of the Paris Agreement, Museum of Australian Democracy, Paulson Institute, Paris School of International Affairs; and Stephen A. Schwartzman Education Foundation. He is co-chair of an Australian charity, the National Apology Foundation, and a trustee of the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City.

Rudd started his diplomatic career in 1981 by posting to Beijing and Stockholm. In 1988, he was appointed Chief of Staff to the Hon. Wayne Goss and served him as Premier of Queensland. He was Director-General of the Cabinet Office from 1991 to 1995 and Senior China Consultant for KPMG from 1996 to 1998.

Rudd graduated with Honours in Asian Studies from the Australian National University and received his PhD from Oxford University in 2022. He also studied at the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. He is the author of several books, including "On Xi Jinping" and "The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China."

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