Executive Director
Allan Gyngell, the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, is an experienced diplomat and intelligence analyst. He also headed the International Division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, from where he was appointed in 1993 as foreign policy adviser to the Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating. The second edition of his book Making Australian Foreign Policy, co-written with Michael Wesley, will be published by Cambridge University Press in late 2007. He is a member of both the Australian Government's Foreign Affairs Council and the Defence and National Security Advisory Council.