Rudd to chair global security review
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has landed a new job chairing a global peace and security review.
Mr Rudd will co-chair the Independent Commission on Multilateralism (ICM) with Norwegian foreign minister Borge Brende and Canadian foreign minister John Baird.
The commission is a two-year program run by the International Peace Institute which will examine the work of the United Nations and other multilateral bodies.
Mr Rudd said there was a growing sense that the world was "fraying at the edges", which made the ICM's work all the more important.
It was to simply take "a fresh look" at how the system could be improved to ensure that its functions and its structure were best suited to the purposes of our time, he said.
The ICM would consult with United Nations member nations as well as UN officials.
The announcement came on the same day former Labor leader Julia Gillard launched her memoir.
