Allan Gyngell
Biography
Allan Gyngell, AO, FAIIA, is National President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. His long career in Australian foreign and national security policy included appointments as Director-General of the Office of National Assessments (ONA), as the inaugural Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney, and to senior positions in the Prime Minister’s office, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
He has spoken and written extensively on Australian foreign policy, intelligence issues, Asian regional relations and the development of global and regional institutions.
He is the author of Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World Since 1942, (La Trobe University Press) and, with Michael Wesley, Making Australian Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press).
He is an Officer in the Order of Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
