HE the Hon Dr Kevin Rudd AC is Australia’s Ambassador to the United States of America. He served as Australia’s twenty-sixth Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Minister for Foreign Affairs, before a second term as Prime Minister in 2013. 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. Dr Rudd holds a PhD from Oxford University and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the Australian National University.