Distinguished fellow Rudd adds another string to bow 


The Australian  |
September 12, 2014 12:00AM
Troy Bramston
Columnist

Sydney


KEVIN Rudd has secured another high-level appointment in the US as a distinguished fellow at the Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago. 
 
The institute, an independent policy centre and think tank, is chaired by former US Treasury secretary Henry Paulson. Mr Paulson is a former chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs and worked with Mr Rudd during the global financial crisis.

“Kevin Rudd has been a leading thinker and doer — in Australia and on the global stage,” Mr Paulson said. “Especially during the challenging days of the financial crisis of 2008, he showed great leadership for ­Australia and the world.”

“Our focus is China, a country with which Kevin has had three decades of rich experience. So I am delighted that he will marry his deep knowledge of China to the Paulson Institute’s effort to fashion practical and enduring solutions to the economic and environmental challenges facing China and the world.”

The former prime minister and foreign minister will focus on the US-China relationship, working closely with the institute’s think tank, and also “participate in projects and initiatives on Chinese economic and environmental policy’’.

This aligns with Mr Rudd’s work at Harvard University, where he is a senior fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government leading research on ­relations between the two countries.

“I am delighted to be joining the Paulson Institute, established by my good friend and colleague Hank Paulson,” Mr Rudd said. “We worked closely together in 2008, so I am pleased to be collaborating again with Hank and his team.

“China is at a threshold moment: it faces very considerable economic and environmental challenges. And what is more, its choices and actions will have a powerful effect on the nature and quality of global growth and environmental protection.

“I look forward to contributing to the Paulson Institute’s effort to foster co-operative solutions and China’s adoption of lessons and best practices from around the world.”

In addition to the Harvard role, Mr Rudd is a distinguished visiting fellow at Chatham House in London, a distinguished statesman with the Centre for Strategic and Inter­national Studies in Washington, and a visiting professor at China’s Tsinghua University.

Mr Rudd and Mr Paulson are today sharing a stage at the Asia Society in New York.

Mr Peabody Rudd only had the support of the People of Australia...
...he never had the support of his Party who never did what he asked of them for 'the Australian People's sake'.

A real tragedy in Australian Politics to be quite honest, and I never even voted for the guy.
By the time he regained power - it was too late and he became a laughing stock. 

Makes you wonder what the standards are... mutual back-slapping societies are essentially meaningless.

The Honourable Knight Errant Generalissimo Sir Grappler, Fellow of the Aardvark Institute of Private Affairs, Frater Royal Farkistanian College of Philosophers, etc etc.

Interesting that this biased right-wing newspaper, the Australian, should publish this story in a straightforward, unslighting way.
Imagine the treatment from the ABC for a similar sort of story on John Howard.

(Cue buzz to come in with archival documentation in rebuttal)

A thinker?????  Rudd????  and even more astonishing... a DOER????  Rudd was almost a decision-free zone and when he did decide things he screwed them up monumentally.   But like most psychopaths, he has a very winning personality.  But the job requires actual thinking and actual doing.  Paulson will regret this quickly!!!

longweekend58 wrote on Sep 12^th, 2014 at 12:28pm:


I remember fellow MP's whining about how long it took to get things done because virtually everything had to go through Rudd's office for his approval. Talk about micro-managing!!!

Armchair_Politician wrote on Sep 12^th, 2014 at 1:08pm:


and large childish fonts sizes

Armchair_Politician wrote on Sep 12^th, 2014 at 1:43pm:


when did the topic change from Rudd to you?