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Kevin Rudd was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 2007 to 2010. After his term ended, he served as Australian Foreign Minister from 2010 to 2012. In 2006, Kevin Rudd was elected as the leader of the Australian Labour Party. He took office during a period of global financial crisis, and under his leadership, Australia became the only major developed economy in the world that did not experience economic recession. The OECD and International Monetary Fund evaluate that Australia's policy response is the most effective in the world. Kevin Rudd is internationally recognized as the founder of the G20 and a driving force behind the expansion of the East Asia Summit after 2010. After graduating from high school, Kevin Rudd obtained high scores and was admitted to the ANU of the Australian National University to study Chinese history and literature. He also took Kevin Rudd as his Chinese name, and the Mandarin Chinese instructor was Zheng Tongtao. In order to complete his thesis, Kevin Rudd mainly collected a large amount of information he needed from Hong Kong, read a lot of Chinese materials, and graduated with a first-class honor degree with this paper. His thesis mentors at the time were Colin Jeffcott, a professor at the ANU Asia Pacific College, and Pierre Ryckmans, a renowned Belgian sinologist. Jeff Scott recalled that he was surprised by Rudd's strong learning motivation. While pursuing his degree, Kevin Rudd once cleaned houses for the famous Australian political commentator Laurie Oakes to solve financial problems. After graduating from university, he went to the Mandarin Teaching Center of National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei in 1980 to study Chinese. Rudd has a wealth of knowledge in global economic management, China's rise, and the challenges of global sustainable development. He is also one of the authors of the 2012 annual report published by the United Nations High Level Panel on Global Sustainable Development. Currently, he is still working on Australia's strategic and economic development in Asia, reconciliation with indigenous peoples, Asian language teaching, housing issues, and organ donation.