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Asia Briefing LIVE 2022

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Our premier executive forum taking the pulse of a complex Asia and Australia’s relationships in the region - in partnership with Bloomberg.

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The existing global order is under threat. As geostrategic competition in the region sharpens, new and old alliances are emerging from the fault lines of conflict. With the continuing fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruption and global inflation are being felt heavily across economies of the region. And an increasingly fragile rules-based order grapples with the rise of autocratic regimes and the reverberations of war in Ukraine. In the face of these multilayered disruptions and increasing fragmentation, where will Asia fit as the global ecosystem is reshaped?

Join us on Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 October for this year’s Asia Briefing LIVE forum, End of Certainty: Asia in a Fragmenting World, as we assess the economic, geopolitical and business trends in Asia.                                                                       

Asia Briefing LIVE is presented in partnership with Bloomberg, the leading global business media company, with all sessions moderated by Bloomberg’s award-winning journalists and editors.

For the first time, Asia Briefing LIVE will be held over two days, in two cities, to in-person and online audiences. This is a unique opportunity to join Australia and our region’s most informed thinkers, leaders, and peers.

Date: Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 October 2022 

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Venue Melbourne: Sir Redmond Barry Room, Investment Centre Victoria, Level 46, 55 Collins Street

Venue Sydney: Bloomberg Australia, Level 27/1 Bligh Street

Register here: https://bbgevent.app/asiabriefinglive/

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Agenda

Wednesday 19 October 2022 - MELBOURNE - Hosted at Investment Centre Victoria

8:30 - 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 9:10 Welcome to Country

9:10 – 9:20 Welcome from Asia Society

9:20 – 9:30 Welcome from Victorian Government

9:30 – 10:30 Geopolitics - Our Region In Flux

The Albanese Government comes to office facing a myriad of geopolitical challenges. The war in Ukraine has shaken the international order. A new Taiwan Straits crisis highlights hardening competition between China and the United States and broader risk to peace. Autocracies face off against democracies, but many countries in Asia are determined not to “choose”. What’s ahead for US-China relations? How are countries lining up in this contest? And how can middle powers like Australia best navigate this turbulent era? 

10:30 – 11:00 Morning tea

11:00 – 12:00 Finding Stability in Global Trade

In partnership with Platinum Partner RMIT University Asia Trade & Innovation Hub

Strong headwinds are buffeting global trade and manufacturing supply chains. The pandemic, the war in Europe, US-China competition and partial de-coupling, coercion and sanctions, and the collapse of support in America’s political class for free trade are a toxic mix.  What is the outlook for globalisation? How much on-shoring or “friend shoring” makes sense for Australia? And how should Australia balance its interests in an open trading system with the need to boost national economic sovereignty?

12:00 – 12:40 Fireside Chat on China's Economy 

12:40 – 2:00 Lunch

 

Thursday 20 October 2022 - SYDNEY - Hosted at Bloomberg

8:30 - 9:00 Registration

9:10 – 9:20 Welcome from Asia Society

9:20 – 10:15 China’s Next Move

Xi Jinping will secure an unprecedented third term as China’s paramount leader later this year. But a mounting list of domestic and international challenges is likely to mute celebrations in Beijing. Zero-Covid lockdowns, a sagging property market, high debt and Xi’s war on the private sector are disrupting trade and hurting growth. China’s relations with the United States and its allies and close partners are increasingly adversarial. What can we expect from Xi and China in his third term? And what scope is there for the Albanese Government to stabilise the bilateral relationship?

10:15 – 10:45 The State of the region

In partnership with Platinum Partner La Trobe Financial

The Indo-Pacific has emerged as the driving force of global growth, trade and innovation. As a result, the US and China vie for influence over an increasingly contested region. Yet, as India celebrates 75 years of independence and Indonesia hosts the G20, countries across Asia are looking to define their own path on the world stage. Following a busy schedule of in-market visits, the region is a clear priority for the Albanese Government, and this panel will ascertain how Australia can engage more closely in a region that wants to shape its own destiny. 

10:45 - 11:00 Morning tea

11:00 – 12:00 Asia’s New Fault Line: Autocracy vs Democracy

US President Joe Biden says democracies must prove they can deliver for their people and for the world’s people, and that democracy is not a “relic of history” that can’t compete with autocracy. Is the world fragmenting into competing spheres of democracies and autocracies? What does Asia make of this competition of systems?  As values play a stronger role in shaping foreign and domestic policies, what are the implications for business? What approach should Australia take? And what is the future of democracy in our region, and in the United States itself?

12:00 – 12:30 Australia-Asia 360°

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch


About our Speakers

Chris Andrews

Chris Andrews, Chief Executive Officer, La Trobe Financial

Chris is the Chief Executive Officer of La Trobe Financial, responsible for all of the Group’s operations.

Chris joined La Trobe Financial in 2006 and, throughout his career with the business, has served in a variety of senior executive roles, including as Chief Investment Officer, Senior Legal Counsel and, prior to his current appointment, Deputy CEO.

Prior to joining La Trobe Financial, Chris worked at Minter Ellison Lawyers.

Chris is Chair of La Trobe Financial’s Executive Committee.

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Tim Ada

Tim Ada, Deputy Secretary Economic Policy and State Productivity Group, Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet

Tim was appointed to the role of Deputy Secretary, Economic Policy and State Productivity in March 2019. Prior to this, Tim was Deputy Secretary of Jobs and Innovation in the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions.

He was responsible for the strategic development of key industry sectors, including manufacturing, life sciences, digital tech, professional services and international education and the delivery of telecommunications and employment programs.

He has also held executive positions in the then Department of Environment and Primary Industries. In the mid-2000s, Tim established and managed the Victorian Government Business Office in New York.

Tim has Bachelor and Masters degrees in Agriculture Science from The University of Melbourne. He grew up in rural Victoria.

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Elisabeth Bowes

Elisabeth Bowes, Chief Negotiator, Regional Trade Agreements Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Elisabeth Bowes was appointed Chief Negotiator, Regional Trade Agreements Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in January 2020, and then First Assistant Secretary in May 2020.

 

Prior to that appointment, Elisabeth was Assistant Secretary, Trade and Investment Law Branch, Office of Trade Negotiations in DFAT (September 2019-January 2020), and Minister-Counsellor (Trade) at the Australian Embassy in Washington DC (July 2016-July 2019). In that position, Ms Bowes oversaw bilateral trade relations between the US and Australia, as well as broader trade policy issues, climate change and energy issues, infrastructure and transportation. Prior to arriving in Washington, Elisabeth Bowes was Head of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Taskforce in the Office of Trade Negotiations in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, from 2012-2016, where she led Australia’s defence of its world first tobacco plain packaging measure in dispute settlement proceedings in the World Trade Organisation.

Elisabeth Bowes was also previously posted as Counsellor to Australia’s Permanent Mission to the WTO in Geneva, from 2009 - 2012. In this position she was responsible for WTO dispute settlement and trade and environment negotiations. Prior to joining Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2006 as a legal specialist, Elisabeth Bowes was a legal officer at the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva and a legal officer at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg.

[Elisabeth Bowes holds Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Queensland, Australia, and Master of Philosophy in International Relations

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Michaela Browning

Michaela Browning, Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google Asia Pacific

Michaela Browning is Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Policy for Google, Asia Pacific. Prior to Google, Michaela held a range of senior positions in the Australian government as a career diplomat, with over 27 years of experience focusing on the Asia-Pacific, international trade and investment, innovation, security and economic development.

She was the inaugural CEO of the National Foundation for Australia China Relations in 2020. She served as Australia’s Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau from 2017 to 2020, and on diplomatic missions in Singapore and Thailand. She also served as senior international adviser to Australian foreign and defense ministers.

Michaela has held senior trade and economic roles including leading Australia’s global investment promotion activities, and leading trade and investment operations for established markets (Americas, Europe, Japan, Korea, NZ and the Pacific) at the trade and investment commission (Austrade). She previously led Australia's development assistance program for Afghanistan and Pakistan, was a trade negotiator to the WTO and for Australia’s free trade agreements with the US and Singapore.

She is one of Australia’s members of the APEC Business Advisory Council, on the Board of the Australia Japan Business Co-operation Committee and of the Asia Society (Australia Chapter). She is an Advisory Board member for the Asian Development Bank. She is an Ambassador for the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation. She has previously served on boards for professional services, education, veterans volunteer and disaster response organizations.

She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has a Bachelor of Economics and Masters in Foreign Affairs and Trade from Monash University.

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Katrina Cooper

Katrina Cooper, Deputy Secretary, National Security & International Policy, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Katrina Cooper assumed the role of Deputy Secretary, National Security & International Policy at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in August 2022. In this role, Katrina supports the Prime Minister on a wide range of issues spanning defence, home affairs, foreign affairs and trade and intelligence portfolios.

During her career, Katrina has served in a variety of international, national security and legal roles. In Australia, Katrina has served as Deputy Secretary, Southeast Asia and Global Partners Group (2022) in the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade (DFAT), where her responsibilities included oversight of 67 overseas posts. She has served as Head of the AUKUS Taskforce in DFAT (2021-22), and Chief Legal Officer for DFAT (2013-17).
Overseas she has served as Deputy Head of Mission, Washington DC (2017-21), where she led bilateral engagement with the United States on foreign and national security policy. She has also served as Ambassador to Mexico (2008-12) and in Papua New Guinea (2002-2005).
Katrina is an experienced advocate and negotiator and has led Australian delegations overseas on a wide range of international policy and legal issues including: chemical and biological weapons; Antarctica; Law of the Sea; and International Humanitarian Law. She has represented Australia at the United Nations in Geneva and New York. In 2017 she negotiated the maritime boundary with Timor-Leste.
Katrina is a strong proponent of a diverse workforce and was the architect and driver of the award winning initiative on Women in Leadership at DFAT.

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Wendy Cutler

Wendy Cutler, Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI), Managing Director of the Washington, D.C. office

Wendy Cutler is Vice President at the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) and the managing director of the Washington, D.C. office.

In these roles, she focuses on leading initiatives that address challenges related to trade, investment, and innovation, as well as women’s empowerment in Asia. She joined ASPI following an illustrious career of nearly three decades as a diplomat and negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), where she also served as Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative. 

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Greg Earl

Greg Earl, Editor, Briefing MONTHLY

Greg Earl is the editor of Briefing MONTHLY - a public update with news and original analysis on Asia and Australia-Asia relations, and the essay series Disruptive Asia. 

Greg was the deputy editor, opinion editor, national affairs editor and Asia Pacific editor of The Australian Financial Review.

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Evan A. Feigenbaum

Evan A. Feigenbaum, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Evan A. Feigenbaum is Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was also the 2019-20 James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, where he is now a practitioner senior fellow. 

Initially an academic with a PhD in Chinese politics from Stanford University, his career has spanned government service, think tanks, the private sector, and three regions of Asia. 

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Graham Fletcher

Graham Fletcher, Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China

Graham Fletcher has been Australia's Ambassador to China since August 2019. Prior to this appointment, Mr Fletcher was head of the North Asia Division in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) during 2008-10 and again from 2015. 

During 2014, he led the team that completed negotiation of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement. 

Mr Fletcher has served in the Australian Embassy to China on three previous occasions:  as Third Secretary (1986-88), Counsellor (1997-2000) and Deputy Head of Mission (2004-08). 

He was also Deputy Head of Mission in the Australian Embassy in Washington (2011-13) and Deputy Consul-General in the Australian Consulate-General in Noumea (1992-94)

Mr Fletcher has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Sydney.  He joined the then Department of Foreign Affairs in 1983. He is married with three children.

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Courtney Fung

Courtney Fung, Associate Professor in the Department of Security Studies & Criminology, Macquarie University

Courtney J. Fung is Associate Professor in the Department of Security Studies & Criminology at Macquarie University. She is concurrently Associate Fellow at the Lowy Institute and Chatham House, and Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. 

Dr. Fung studies how rising powers address the norms and provisions for global governance and international security, with a primary focus on China.  She is author of China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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Tony Garvey

Uncle Tony Garvey, Wurundjeri Elder

A proud Wurundjeri man, Tony Garvey has been contributing to his community for 30 years.

He has worked for the Aboriginal Co-op in Healesville as well as for Wurundjeri Council. In recent years Tony has developed his passion for Cultural Heritage Management within the Council.

Tony commenced delivering Welcomes four years ago when his mother, Aunty Doreen Garvey-Wandin (Senior Wurundjeri Elder), gave her blessing for Tony to take on this cultural duty.

Tony has a particularly deep connection with Coranderrk – a former thriving Aboriginal

Station in Healesville. Tony takes great pride in being a Wurundjeri descendant and with his strong past and contemporary connection with Coranderrk.

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Bilahari Kausikan

Bilahari Kausikan, Chairman, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore

Bilahari Kausikan is currently Chairman of the Middle East Institute, an autonomous institute of the National University of Singapore. He has spent his entire career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

During his 37 years in the Ministry, he served in a variety of appointments at home and abroad, including as Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, and as the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry. 

 

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Richard Maude pw

Richard Maude, Executive Director, Policy, Asia Society Australia

Richard Maude is Executive Director of Policy at Asia Society Australia and a Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute. He is a former senior Australian government official with 30 years’ experience in foreign policy and national security.

From 2018 to 2019, Mr Maude was Deputy Secretary, Indo-Pacific Group, in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Australia’s senior official to the East Asia Summit.

In 2017, Mr Maude was head of the whole-of-government taskforce which supported the preparation of the Australian Government’s 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper.

Mr Maude was Director-General of the Office of National Assessments from May 2013 until November 2016.  Before taking up this position, Mr Maude was the senior adviser on foreign policy and national security issues to Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

He has served overseas in Malaysia, where he was Deputy High Commissioner, Singapore and as the Liaison Officer for the Office of National Assessments in the Australian Embassy in Washington DC.

Mr Maude is a member of the Futures Council of the National Security College at the Australian National University.

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Richard McGregor

Richard McGregor, Senior Fellow for East Asia, Lowy Institute

Richard McGregor is Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute, Australia’s premier foreign policy think tank, in Sydney. Richard is a former Beijing and Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times and the author of numerous books on East Asia.

His most recent book, Xi Jinping: The Backlash, was published by Penguin Australia as a Lowy Institute Paper in August 2019. His book on Sino-Japanese relations, Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century (Penguin Books, 2017), was called “shrewd and knowing” by the Wall Street Journal and the “best book of the year” by the Literary Review in the United Kingdom. In late 2018, it won the Prime Minister of Australia’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. His book, The Party (Penguin Books, 2010), on the inner-workings of the Chinese Communist Party, was translated into seven languages and chosen by the Asia Society and Mainichi Shimbun in Japan as their book of the year.

Richard is a Senior Associate (Non-resident) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in the United States. He was also a visiting scholar at the Wilson Center and George Washington University in Washington DC from 2014-2016.

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James McIntyre

James McIntyre, Economist, Bloomberg Economics 

James McIntyre is Bloomberg Economics economist covering the Australian and New Zealand economies. He has previously covered the Australian and New Zealand economies at Macquarie Bank and Commonwealth Bank. 

He also has a background across economics, public policy and politics through his roles in the Australian Treasury, the Australian Banking Association, and as an economic advisor in the Office of the Prime Minister.  He is based in Sydney. 

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Raja Mohan

Raja Mohan, Senior Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute in Delhi, Visiting Research Professor, Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

C. Raja Mohan is a Senior Fellow with the Asia Society Policy Institute in Delhi — a division of the Asia Society India Centre, Mumbai. 

He is a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore, and was previously the Director of ISAS. Mohan was the founding director of Carnegie India in Delhi, the sixth international center of Carnegie Endowment for Peace. 

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Shafiah F. Muhibat

Shafiah F. Muhibat, Deputy Executive Director for Research, Centre for Strategic and International Studies

Shafiah F. Muhibat joined CSIS in December 2000. She is currently the Deputy Executive Director for Research (since January 2022) — previously she was the Head of Department of International Relations (2018-2021) and Deputy Head of Department of Politics and International Relations (2016-2017).

 

Her research interests include issues of regional security in the Indo-Pacific, ASEAN, maritime security, Indonesia’s foreign policy, and development cooperation. In 2017, she joined the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) Singapore as a Senior Fellow at the Maritime Security Programme for one year. She was the Chief Editor of The Indonesian Quarterly, a quarterly academic journal published by CSIS, from 2013 to 2016; Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy in Hamburg, Germany, from 2009 to 2012; and has received various scholarships and research grants, among others from the German Academic Exchange Service, the Managing Global Governance Network, USAID, JICA, and Korea Foundation. She served in the panel of jury for the 2022 and 2021 Adam Malik Award.

She earned a masters degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2003 and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Hamburg in 2013.

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Siswo Pramono

Siswo Pramono,  Ambassador of Indonesia to Australia and Vanuatu

Siswo Pramono is the Ambassador of Indonesia to Australia and Vanuatu. Prior to this position, he was Director General/Head of The Foreign Policy Strategy Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. He attained Ph.D degree from the Australian National University, and LL.M degree from Monash University, Australia. 

Dr. Pramono completed his professional diplomatic training in the diplomatic schools of Indonesian Foreign Ministry, Jakarta, and the Clingendael Institute of International Relations, The Netherlands. As a career diplomat, he served in various Indonesian diplomatic missions abroad, including The Indonesian Embassies in The Netherlands and Germany. As a scholar, Dr. Pramono is a non-tenured lecture in various universities, namely Airlangga University, Cendrawasih University, as well as a fellow at the The Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) and Charles Darwin University, Australia.

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Susannah Patton

Susannah Patton, Director of the Southeast Asia Program, Lowy Institute

Susannah Patton is Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute and the Project Lead for the Asia Power Index, the Institute’s annual data-driven assessment that maps the changing distribution of power in the region. Her research on Southeast Asia is focused on strategic alignment dynamics and the roles of external powers including the United States, China and Australia.

Before joining the Lowy Institute, Susannah was a Research Fellow in the Foreign Policy and Defence Program at the United States Studies Centre. Her commentary and analysis has featured in Australian and international outlets, including the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Australian Financial Review and The Interpreter. Before leaving government, she worked in various Southeast Asia-focused positions in the Australian government, including as a Senior Analyst in the Southeast Asia Branch at the Office of National Intelligence, in the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit Taskforce in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and as a diplomat in the Australian Embassy in Bangkok. Susannah holds first class honours degrees in law and political science from the Australian National University.

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Haidi Stroud-Watts

Haidi Stroud-Watts, Anchor, Bloomberg Television

Haidi Stroud-Watts is the Sydney anchor for “Daybreak Australia,” Bloomberg Television’s flagship morning program, covering market-moving business and finance news in Australia as it kicks off the Asia-Pacific trading day. She also co-anchors “Bloomberg Markets Asia,” with Rishaad Salamat in Hong Kong.

 

Stroud-Watts has conducted in-depth interviews with many leading business, financial and corporate newsmakers including Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan, Nobel Laureate for Economics Angus Deaton, World Bank Managing Director Bertrand Badre and the founders of China’s largest conglomerate, Fosun. She has also reported live from major events, most recently China’s 19th Party Congress in Beijing.

Stroud-Watts joined Bloomberg in 2015 as an anchor for Bloomberg Television in Hong Kong. Prior to joining Bloomberg, she was the Senior Business Anchor for Channel NewsAsia in Singapore. She began her career as a lawyer in Melbourne before making the switch to journalism as a Business Anchor with CCTV News in Beijing, and subsequently to Fox Business Network as its Asia Markets Reporter.

Fluent in Mandarin and English, Stroud-Watts graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, History and Political Science, and a Bachelor of Law degree.

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The Honorable Kevin Rudd AC, President and CEO, Asia Society; President, Asia Society Policy Institute

Kevin Rudd became president and CEO of Asia Society in January 2021 and has been president of the Asia Society Policy Institute since January 2015. He served as Australia's 26th Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Foreign Minister from 2010 to 2012, before returning as Prime Minister in 2013.

As Prime Minister, Rudd led Australia's response during the Global Financial Crisis. Australia's fiscal response to the crisis was reviewed by the IMF as the most effective stimulus strategy of all member states. Australia was the only major advanced economy not to go into recession. Rudd is also internationally recognized as one of the founders of the G20, which drove the global response to the crisis and in 2009 helped prevent the crisis from spiraling into a second global depression.

As Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Rudd was active in global and regional foreign policy leadership. He was a driving force in expanding the East Asia Summit (EAS) to include both the U.S. and Russia in 2010. He also initiated the concept of transforming the EAS into a wider Asia-Pacific community to help manage deep-rooted tensions in Asia by building over time the institutions and culture of common security in Asia. On climate change, Rudd ratified the Kyoto Protocol in 2007 and legislated in 2008 for a mandatory 20 percent renewable energy target for Australia. Rudd launched Australia's challenge in the International Court of Justice with the objective of stopping Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean. Rudd drove Australia's successful bid for its current non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and oversaw the near-doubling of Australia's foreign aid budget.

Rudd is Chair of the Board of the International Peace Institute. He is a member of the IMF Managing Director’s External Advisory Group and the Global Leadership Council for Sanitation and Water for All. He is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, a Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House in London, a Distinguished Statesman with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Paulson Institute in Chicago. Rudd is a member of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization’s Group of Eminent Persons. He serves on the International Advisory Board of the Schwarzman Scholars program at Tsinghua University. Rudd is proficient in Mandarin Chinese. He remains actively engaged in indigenous reconciliation.

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Ben Westcott

Ben Westcott, Australia Government Reporter, Bloomberg

Ben Westcott is Bloomberg's Australia government reporter, writing on politics and foreign policy from Parliament House in Canberra. An award-winning journalist with a deep interest in geopolitics and diplomacy, he has reported from across the Asia-Pacific region, including China, Indonesia and Hong Kong. 

He has written for publications including the Canberra Times and the South China Morning Post, and was part of CNN’s award-winning coverage of the 2019 Hong Kong protests and the Xinjiang human rights crisis, before joining Bloomberg in 2022.

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