Английская Википедия:David Irvine (diplomat)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox officeholder David Taylor Irvine, Шаблон:Post-nominals (10 January 1947 – 30 March 2022) was an Australian diplomat who, from March 2009 to September 2014, was the Director-General of Security, the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). 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 appointed Chair of the Foreign Investment Review Board.[2]
Education and career
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 serving as a diplomat in Rome (1970–1973) later in Jakarta (1976–1980). Other diplomatic appointments included postings as a Counsellor (later Minister) in Beijing (1982–1986) and Minister in Jakarta (1988–1990).[4] In 1996 to 1999 Irvine served as Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea,[5] and was Australian Ambassador to China from 2000 to 2003.[1]
Irvine wrote two books about Indonesia: a 1990 English translation of Bisma: Warrior Priest of the Mahabharata by Satyagraha Hurip,[6] and Leather Gods & Wooden Heroes: Java's Classical Wayang (1996; about Indonesian Wayang shadow puppets).[7]
Irvine died in Canberra on 30 March 2022 after a period of illness and a stroke, aged 75.[8]
Honours
Irvine was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in June 2005.[9]
References
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 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.
- ↑ Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Statement of Service, Appointments and Biographies Tenth Edition, October 1995. p. 197.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite press release
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web. Sarah Basford Canales and Harley Dennett, 'David Irvine, a spy boss and 'giant of the public service' who steered many PMs, dies at 75, The Canberra Times, 31 March 2022.
- ↑ Australian Honours
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