David Irvine (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]

David Irvine
AO
12th Director-General of Security
In office
30 March 2009 – 14 September 2014
Prime MinisterKevin Rudd
Julia Gillard
Tony Abbott
Preceded byPaul O'Sullivan
Succeeded byDuncan Lewis
10th Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service
In office
1 March 2003 – 27 March 2009
Prime MinisterJohn Howard
Preceded byAllan Taylor
Succeeded byNick Warner
Personal details
Born
David Taylor Irvine

(1947-01-10) 10 January 1947
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Alma materUniversity of Western Australia
OccupationDiplomat

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
  1. McDonald, Hamish: Puppet-master now pulling the strings at ASIS, The Age, 20 February 2003.
  2. FIRB Chair Appointment, FIRB, Treasurer, 10 April 2017
  3. Appointment of Director-General, ASIS, Minister for Foreign Affairs, 23 December 2002.
  4. 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.
  5. Bisma : warrior priest of the Mahabharata / Satyagraha Hurip ; translated from the Indonesian by David Irvine, National Library of Australia, 1990.
  6. Leather gods & wooden heroes : Java's classical wayang / David Irvine, National Library of Australia, 1996.
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