Geoffrey William "Geoff" Raby AO (born September 1953 in Melbourne[1]) is an Australian economist and diplomat.

Raby currently sits on the board of an Australian subsidiary of Chinese state-run Yanzhou Coal Mining Company.

[3] 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".

[5] 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),[6] 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).

His client list includes Queensland Investment Corporation.,[10] Raby was appointed as the Beijing-based Executive Director of Riverstone Advisory Pty Ltd,[6] an adviser to law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth and co-chair of the firm's China practice,[2] and a Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow at Monash University.