Michael L'Estrange
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Michael Gerard L'Estrange 12 October 1952 North Sydney, New South Wales |
| Nationality |
 Australian |
| Alma mater |
The University of Sydney; Oxford University; Georgetown University; University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Academic, public servant and diplomat |
Michael Gerard L'Estrange AO (born 12 October 1952 in North Sydney, New South Wales), an Australian academic and former public servant. He is the former Head of the National Security College at the Australian National University, in Canberra. L'Estrange had earlier served a long career in the Australian public service including as a diplomat and as Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
L'Estrange attended St Aloysius' College in Sydney and then studied history at the University of Sydney residing at St John's College, and graduated in 1974. He went on to win a Rhodes Scholarship in 1975, studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford University, graduating in 1979 with first class honours. While at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for the Oxford University Cricket Club.
Returning to Australia, L'Estrange worked for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, focusing on foreign policy and also undertaking staff work with the Royal Commission on Australia's security and intelligence agencies. In 198? (He applied but was not awarded the Harkness in 1986. That year it was awarded to Eleanor Hall) he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship and attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University, where the supervisor of his studies was Madeleine Albright. He also studied at the University of California, Berkeley. After this fellowship, he worked as a policy adviser to Australian Liberal Party leaders between 1989 and 1994, and became the executive director of the Menzies Research Centre, a conservative think tank, in 1995. In 1996, with the election of the Howard coalition government, L'Estrange was appointed as Secretary of Cabinet and the head of the Cabinet Policy Unit. L'Estrange and Howard had been neighbours in the 1970s.
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