ASIFMA Asset Management Conference 2025
23 October 2025, Singapore
The Hon Dr Kevin Rudd AC
Australia Ambassador to the United States
Australia Embassy to the United States
Ambassador Rudd 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. He was Member for Griffith in the Australian
Parliament from 1998 to 2013.
Since leaving government, Ambassador Rudd has resided in the United States where
he is recognised as a leading analyst of China. In 2014, he joined the Harvard
Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as a resident
scholar on US-China relations. 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.
In 2019, Ambassador 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
organisations. Ambassador Rudd holds honorary positions at the Atlantic Council and
Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC; the Asia Society,
Schwartzman Scholars and Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New York; the Belfer
Center at the Harvard Kennedy School; the Paulson Institute in Chicago; the Paris
School of International Affairs at Sciences Po in Paris, France; the Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt Foundation in Hamburg, Germany; and Museum of Australian Democracy at
Old Parliament House in Canberra. He is founder and 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.
Ambassador Rudd started his diplomatic career in 1981 with postings 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
in Queensland from 1991 to 1995, and Senior China Consultant for KPMG from 1996
to 1998.
