Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service
# 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 Minister for Foreign Affairs, and regularly meets with the Minister to brief them on ASIS activities. The current director is Kerri Hartland.

## List of directors-general

There have been eleven officially-appointed Directors and Directors-General of ASIS since 1952.

| Tenure | Name |
| - | - |
| 1952–1957 | Alfred Brookes |
| 1957–1960 | Ralph Harry, OBE |
| 1960–1968 | Major General Sir Walter Cawthorn, CB, CIE, CBE |
| 1968–1975 | Bill Robertson, OBE, MC |
| 1975–1981 | Ian Kennison, CBE |
| 1981–1983 | John Ryan, OBE (acting) |
| 1984–1992 | Brigadier Jim Furner, CBE |
| 1992–1998 | Rex Stevenson, AO |
| 1998–2003 | Allan Taylor, AM |
| 2003–2009 | David Irvine, AO |
| 2009–2017 | Nick Warner, AO, PSM |
| 2017–2023 | Major General Paul Symon, AO |
| 2023–present | Kerri Hartland |
