Executive Director
Allan Gyngell is the founding Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, and is now Director-General of the Office of National Assessments. He 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, was published by Cambridge University Press in late 2007.
