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Join us for an exclusive off-the-record conversation with the Honorable Kevin Rudd, Ambassador of Australia to the U.S., 26th Prime Minister of Australia, and former President of the Asia Society, at the signature event of the 2025 Global Security Forum Series.
Ambassador Rudd will offer expert insight on the future of the U.S.-Australia alliance, security and economic cooperation through AUKUS, relations with China, and Australia’s role on the global stage. This is a rare opportunity to engage directly with one of the world’s most respected voices in international affairs.
Moderated by CNN’s Jim Sciutto, chief national security analyst and anchor of The Brief with Jim Sciutto.
The Details
When: Tuesday, November 18th | 5:30pm – 7:00pm ET
Where: Mark Twain House, Hartford CT
Tickets: $40 General Admission | $30 CTWAC Member Admission
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With Special Guests
H.E. The Hon. Dr. Kevin Rudd AC
Ambassador of Australia to the U.S. and 26th Prime Minister of Australia
HE 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 recognised as a leading analyst of China. 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.
Learn more about Ambassador Rudd here.
Jim Sciutto
CNN’s chief national security analyst & anchor of The Brief with Jim Sciutto
Sciutto reports and provides analysis on all aspects of U.S. national security including foreign policy, the military, intelligence community and the State Department.
Throughout his career, he has reported from more than 50 countries across the globe including dozens of assignments from inside Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran, as well as multiple assignments in Ukraine and the Middle East. Sciutto has also served as chief of staff and senior advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke.
Sciutto is the author of four books, including the New York Times Bestseller, The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China and the Next World War, which examines the breakdown of a decades-old international order among the world’s strongest powers.
This event is part of the Global Security Forum Series 2025 (GSF2025). GSF2025 is evolving to reach a growing number of attendees and to host more international and national leaders than ever before. GSF has expanded from a one-day gathering into a dynamic series of in-person and virtual events throughout Fall 2025. Learn more and find the full schedule here.
The theme of GSF2025 is Unraveling Order. We explore the edge of uncertainty – the threats that emerge when norms collapse and the opportunities that arise when power shifts. GSF2025 gathers the world’s top leaders and minds to ask: when certainty collapses, what comes next?
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