The Hon. Dr. Kevin Rudd AC
Kevin Rudd served as Australia’s twenty-six Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Minister for Foreign Affairs, before a second term as Prime Minister in 2013. He is currently Australian Ambassador to the United States.
Since leaving government, Dr. Rudd has resided in the United States 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 and founded its Center for China Analysis in 2022.
Dr. Rudd started his diplomatic career in 1981 with postings to Beijing and Stockholm. He later served as a senior public servant and as a China consultant for KPMG prior to his election to Australian parliament in 1998.
Dr. Rudd is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. He graduated with Honours in Asian Studies from the Australian National University and received his PhD from Oxford University in 2022. He also studied at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei.
Dr. Rudd is the author of On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World. His previous books include The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China and The PM Years.
