David Irvine (diplomat)
David Irvine AO | |
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12th Director-General of Security | |
In office 30 March 2009 – 14 September 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Kevin Rudd Julia Gillard Tony Abbott |
Preceded by | Paul O'Sullivan |
Succeeded by | Duncan Lewis |
10th Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service | |
In office 1 March 2003 – 27 March 2009 | |
Prime Minister | John Howard |
Preceded by | Allan Taylor |
Succeeded by | Nick Warner |
Personal details | |
Born | David Taylor Irvine 10 January 1947 Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
Nationality | Australian |
Alma mater | University of Western Australia |
Occupation | Diplomat |
David Taylor Irvine AO (born 10 January 1947) is an Australian diplomat, who from March 2009 to September 2014 was the Director-General of Security, the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. Prior to his appointment to ASIO, he was Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) from 2003 to 2009.[1] In 2017 he was unexpectedly appointed Chair of the Foreign Investment Review Board despite having no professional investment or business experience.[2]
Irvine was born in Perth, Western Australia[3] and studied at Hale School and The University of Western Australia, graduating with honours in Elizabethan history. He worked as a journalist in Perth, and joined the Department of External Affairs (the Australian foreign service) in 1970, and served as Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea (1996–1999)[4] and Australian Ambassador to China (2000–2003).[1]
He has written two books about Indonesia: a 1990 English translation of Bisma: Warrior Priest of the Mahabharata by Satyagraha Hurip,[5] and Leather Gods & Wooden Heroes: Java's Classical Wayang (1996; about Indonesian Wayang shadow puppets).[6]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b McDonald, Hamish: Puppet-master now pulling the strings at ASIS, The Age, 20 February 2003.
- ^ FIRB Chair Appointment, FIRB, Treasurer, 10 April 2017
- ^ Appointment of Director-General, ASIS, Minister for Foreign Affairs, 23 December 2002.
- ^ Evans, Gareth (9 December 1995). "Diplomatic Appointment: High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea" (Press release). Australian Government. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012.
- ^ Bisma : warrior priest of the Mahabharata / Satyagraha Hurip ; translated from the Indonesian by David Irvine, National Library of Australia, 1990.
- ^ Leather gods & wooden heroes : Java's classical wayang / David Irvine, National Library of Australia, 1996.
- 1947 births
- Living people
- Directors-General of Security
- Directors-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service
- Officers of the Order of Australia
- University of Western Australia alumni
- People educated at Hale School
- People from Perth, Western Australia
- High Commissioners of Australia to Papua New Guinea
- Ambassadors of Australia to China
- Ambassadors of Australia to Mongolia
- 21st-century Australian public servants
- 20th-century Australian public servants