Gillard turns up in Hillary Clinton campaign ad

Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has appeared in a new campaign video endorsing Hillary Clinton in her bid for the White House.

Ms Gillard appears alongside US President Barack Obama and former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in the clip spruiking the worth of the Democratic Party presidential hopeful.

“People would look at the election of a President Clinton and say “I know that I’m going to get someone who understands our part of the world and will help us shape the best future”,” she says in the video released overnight.

The former PM also praised Ms Clinton’s commitment to advancing the welfare of women and girls worldwide.

"Hillary Clinton understood in her heart how important it was for girls to get an opportunity but she also understood in her head that if we want to build peaceful, economically prosperous nations, then we have to educate girls,” the former Labor leader says.

"It fell to Secretary Clinton to build and renew the relationship with Japan, with Australia, with South Korea," said Ms Gillard, who worked closely with Clinton on America’s “pivot” to the Asia-Pacific.

Ms Clinton has been touted as the favourite to win the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.