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Rex Stevenson

Rex Stevenson

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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.

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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]

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  1. [1]
    Who's Who in Australia, ConnectWeb, 2014.
  2. [2]
    "Cultivators and administrators : British educational policy towards the Malays, 1875-1906 / Rex Stevenson". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  3. [3]
    "Questions in Writing: Australian Secret Intelligence Service". Hansard. Parliament of Australia. 28 May 2007. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
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