Rex Stevenson

Rex Stevenson
AO
8th Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service
In office
9 December 1992  28 February 1998
Preceded by Jim Furner
Succeeded by Allan Taylor
Personal details
Born Rex Kenneth Stevenson
16 October 1942
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality Australian
Spouse(s) Caroline Schoning (m. 1969)
Alma mater Monash University
Occupation Intelligence officer

Rex Kenneth Stevenson AO (born 16 October 1942) is an Australian company director and former intelligence officer, who was the Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service from 1992 to 1998.

Born in Melbourne, Stevenson attended Northcote High School, and then studied a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a Master of Arts at Monash University.[1] His 1970 masters thesis, Cultivators and administrators: British educational policy towards the Malays, 1875–1906, was published as a book by Oxford University Press in 1975.[2]

Stevenson began his career as an intelligence officer in 1973, and by 1990 he was the Deputy Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS).[1] On 25 November 1992, he was promoted to acting Director-General and was officially appointed to the role two weeks later on 9 December.[3]

After his retirement from ASIS in 1998, Stevenson co-founded the security consulting firms Signet Group and Spectrum Consultancy.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Who's Who in Australia, ConnectWeb, 2014.
  2. "Cultivators and administrators : British educational policy towards the Malays, 1875-1906 / Rex Stevenson". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  3. "Questions in Writing: Australian Secret Intelligence Service". Hansard (Parliament of Australia). 28 May 2007. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
Government offices
Preceded by
Jim Furner
Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service
1992–1998
Succeeded by
Allan Taylor