Rex Stevenson | |
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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 |
Spouse |
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]