Luncheon with H.E. Kevin Rudd, Ambassador of Australia to the U.S.

The U.S. Chamber's Southeast Asia Program is pleased to invite you to a private, off-the-record discussion with H.E. Kevin Rudd, Ambassador of Australia to the U.S. In the wake of the recent meeting of the Quad leaders in Japan and Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Ambassador Rudd will discuss dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region, state of play with respect to the Quad and AUKUS, and IPEF and other trade issues. We will welcome Ambassador Rudd’s thinking on China’s role in the region, as well, as a widely respected China watcher.

H.E. the Hon Dr Kevin Rudd AC is Australia’s Ambassador to the United States of America, taking up his posting in Washington in March 2023. 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 recognized 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. Read his full bio here.

This invitation is non-transferable, attendance is limited, and for U.S. Chamber Southeast Asia Program members only. Please do not forward it. For more information, please contact Shannon Hayden (shayden@uschamber.com).

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