He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and was a member of the Advisory Council of the National Archives of Australia for nine years.
He has honorary doctorates from the University of Western Australia (Letters) and Edith Cowan University (Science). Irvine has published two books on Indonesian culture. He chairs the Cyber Security Research Centre, a not-for-profit company promoting industry investment into Australia’s cyber research capabilities in conjunction with the Government’s Cooperative Research Centre programme. He is an Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University and also assists at the National Security College within the Australian National University. He is currently the Chairman of the Foreign Investment Review Board. He subsequently became the only person to have served as the head of both Australia’s foreign intelligence collection agency and its domestic security agency – positions he held for almost twelve years.
SETTING THE SCENE David Irvine AO AIPIO PatronĪ long-serving diplomat, David Irvine was Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea from 1996-1999 and Australian Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China between 2000-2003, also concurrently Australian Ambassador to Mongolia and to the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea.
