Rex Kenneth Stevenson (born 16 October 1942) is an Australian company director and former intelligence officer, who was the

Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service The Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service is the executive officer of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), Australia's foreign intelligence agency. The Director-General of ASIS is directly responsible to the ...

from 1992 to 1998. Born in

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

, Stevenson attended

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, and then studied a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a Master of Arts at

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has a ...

.''Who's Who in Australia'', ConnectWeb, 2014. 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

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(ASIS). 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.

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