Leaders on Asia | An Evening with Kevin Rudd

Join Asia Society Global President and CEO Kevin Rudd for an evening at Asia Society Australia’s Sydney offices at Macquarie University.

In his final Asia Society Australia engagement before taking up his post as Australian Ambassador to the United States, Dr Rudd will take stock of the Australia-China relationship, the global impact of China re-opening its borders and ongoing US-China competition.

Dr Rudd will be joined in conversation with Macquarie University’s Courtney Fung and attendees will have an opportunity to engage with Dr Rudd.

This event will be run under Chatham House rules with drinks and canapes provided.

Date: Monday, February 13th
Time: 7pm arrival for 7:30pm – 8:30pm. Event ends at 9pm
Venue: Sydney CBD

This program is reserved for Asia Society Australia members and places are strictly limited. For any enquiries, please contact programaustralia@asiasociety.org.

 About our Speakers 

The Hon. Kevin Rudd AC, President and CEO, Asia Society 

The Hon. Kevin Rudd AC is President and CEO of the Asia Society, and inaugural President of the Asia Society Policy Institute. He served as 26th Prime Minister of Australia (2007 to 2010, 2013) and as Foreign Minister (2010 to 2012). He is Chair of the Board of the International Peace Institute in New York, and Chair of Sanitation and Water for All – a global partnership of government and non-governmental organizations dedicated to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6. He is a Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House and the Paulson Institute, and a Distinguished Statesman with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also a member of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization’s Group of Eminent Persons. 

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

Dr. Courtney J. Fung is an associate professor in the Department of Security Studies & Criminology at Macquarie University and an associate in research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. Her research focuses on how rising powers, such as China and India, address the norms and provisions for a global security order. She is the author of China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status (Oxford University Press, 2019). 

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