Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd is the global president and CEO of Asia Society and has been president of the Asia Society Policy Institute since January 2015. He served as Australia's twenty-sixth prime minister from 2010 and then as its foreign minister from 2010 to 2012 before returning as prime minister in 2013. Rudd graduated from the Australian National University with honours in Chinese studies and is fluent in Mandarin. He also studied at the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei.