Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service | |
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Appointer | Quentin Bryce |
Inaugural holder | Alfred Deakin Brookes |
Formation | 1952 |
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 is directly responsible to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and regularly meets with the Minister to brief them on ASIS activities.
There have been eleven officially-appointed Directors and Directors-General of ASIS since 1952. The current Director is Nick Warner AO.