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The Hon Bob Carr
ProfessorProfessor the Hon Bob Carr was the longest continuously serving Premier in the history of New
South Wales. Bob entered the Senate in 2012 and served as Australia’s Foreign Minister for 18
months. Since leaving politics Bob has led a distinguished career as a defacto diplomat, author
and academic.
Bob received the Fulbright Distinguished Fellow Award Scholarship. He has served as Honorary
Scholar of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue. He is the author of My Reading Life
(2008), Thoughtlines (2002), Diary of a Foreign Minister (2014) and his political memoir Run
for Your Life (2018).
For five years he was the Director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of
Technology Sydney. Between 2019 and 2022 he served as Professor of Industry in Climate and
Business at the University of Technology Sydney helping shape the debate on climate and
energy.