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Geoff Raby is an Australian economist and diplomat who was born in Melbourne in 1953. He is the former Australian Ambassador to China and the former Chief Executive Officer of the Australia-China Business Council. Raby graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Economics in 1975 and a Master of Economics in 1977. He then went on to work for the Australian Treasury from 1977 to 1983. In 1983, he joined the Australian Embassy in Beijing as the First Secretary for Economics and Commercial Affairs. Raby returned to Australia in 1988 and worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in various roles, including as the Deputy Secretary for Trade Negotiations. In 2001, he was appointed as the Australian Ambassador to China, a role he held until 2005. Raby then returned to the private sector and was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the Australia-China Business Council in 2006. He held this role until 2011. Raby is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney. He is also a Non-Executive Director of the Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture at Western Sydney University. Raby is married to his wife, Dr. Yvonne Raby, and they have two children.

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Occupation Economist and diplomat
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 1953-09-, 1953
Birthday 1953-09-
Birthplace Melbourne, Australia
Nationality Australia

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2019

Raby was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to Australia-China relations through senior diplomatic roles, and to multilateral trade policy development".

1996

He published a book concerning Australian economic history in 1996 entitled Making rural Australia: an economic history of technical and institutional creativity, 1788–1860.

1986

Raby attended La Trobe University and graduated with bachelor's degree (Honours), a master's degree and a PhD in economics. He worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in several positions as head of the Chinese Embassy's economics division (1986–1991), head of the Northeast Asia Analytical Unit (1991–1993), First Assistant Secretary, Trade Negotiations Division (1995–1998), Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization (1998–2001) and First Assistant Secretary, International Organisations and Legal Division (2001–2002), Ambassador to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (2002–2004), and a Deputy Secretary of the Department (2002–2006). While based in Beijing from 1986 to 1991, he worked with Kevin Rudd, who served as Australia's Prime Minister and later Minister for Foreign Affairs while Raby was Ambassador to China.

1953

Geoffrey William "Geoff" Raby AO (born September 1953 in Melbourne) is an Australian economist and diplomat. He served as the Australian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from February 2007 until August 2011. He is now the chairman and CEO of Geoff Raby and Associates, a Beijing-based business advisory firm. Raby currently sits on the board of an Australian subsidiary of state-run Yanzhou Coal Mining Company.