David Irvine (diplomat)

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David Taylor Irvine AO (born 1947) is an Australian diplomat, and since March 2009 has been the current Director-General of Security (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]

Irvine was born in Perth, Western Australia[2] 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)[3] and Australian Ambassador to China (2000–2003).[1]

He has written two books about Indonesia: an 1990 English translation of Bisma: Warrior Priest of the Mahabharata by Satyagraha Hurip,[4] and Leather Gods & Wooden Heroes: Java's Classical Wayang (1996; about Indonesian Wayang shadow puppets).[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 McDonald, Hamish: Puppet-master now pulling the strings at ASIS, The Age, 20 February 2003.
  2. ↑ Appointment of Director-General, ASIS, Minister for Foreign Affairs, 23 December 2002.
  3. ↑ Diplomatic Appointment: High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, Department of Foreign Affairs, 9 December 1995.
  4. ↑ Bisma : warrior priest of the Mahabharata / Satyagraha Hurip ; translated from the Indonesian by David Irvine, National Library of Australia, 1990.
  5. ↑ Leather gods & wooden heroes : Java's classical wayang / David Irvine, National Library of Australia, 1996.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Bill Farmer		 Australian High Commissioner
to Papua New Guinea
1996–1999 		Succeeded by
Nick Warner
Preceded by
Ric Smith		 Australian Ambassador to China
2000–2003 		Succeeded by
Alan Thomas
Government offices
Preceded by
Allan Taylor		 Director-General of the
Australian Secret Intelligence Service
2003–2009 		Succeeded by
Nick Warner
Preceded by
Paul O'Sullivan		 Director-General of Security
2009–present 		Incumbent
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