predecessor successor birth_place nationality office birth_date order term_start birthname spouse article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
jim furner allan taylor melbourne , victoria , australia australian director-general of the australian secret intelligence service 16 october 1942 8th 9 december 1992 rex kenneth stevenson caroline schoning 3 september 1969 rex stevenson
 28 february 1998 rex stevenson intelligence officer monash university
rex stevenson

rex kenneth stevenson -lrb- born 16 october 1942 -rrb- 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 .
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 .
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 -lrb- asis -rrb- .
on 25 november 1992 , he was promoted to acting director-general and was officially appointed to the role two weeks later on 9 december .
after his retirement from asis in 1998 , stevenson co-founded the security consulting firms signet group and spectrum consultancy .
