Kevin Rudd

Join the conversation as Ambassador Kevin Rudd sits down for a fireside chat with Edmund Malesky, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Duke Center for International Development.

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Born and raised in country Queensland, Kevin Rudd became Australia’s 26th Prime Minister in 2007 after leading the Australian Labor Party into government after more than eleven years in opposition. He served as Australia’s 26th Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Minister for Foreign Affairs, before a second term as Prime Minister in 2013. In March 2023, he assumed his role as Australia’s Ambassador to the United States in Washington DC.

Kevin is recognised as a leading analyst of China and, prior to his ambassadorship, served as the inaugural President of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York from 2015. In 2020, he was appointed President and CEO of the Asia Society globally and, in 2022, he founded the Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis.

Kevin’s new book, On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World, is based on his Oxford doctoral thesis. It is published by Oxford University Press.

This event is sponsored by the Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke Center for International Development, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, and the Program in American Grand Strategy.