Nick Warner

Nicholas Peter Warner, is a former Australian diplomat, intelligence official and public servant.
Warner was the Director-General of the Office of National Intelligence from December 2018 until December 2020. He also served as the director-general of the precursor agency to ONI, the Office of National Assessments, from December 2017 to December 2018.
Prior to that, Warner served as the director-general Australian Secret Intelligence Service from August 2009 to December 2017, and the secretary of the Australian Department of Defence from December 2006 to August 2009.

Education

Born in Singapore, Warner holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in history and Asian studies and a Master of Arts degree in history from the Australian National University.

, Deputy head, Current Intelligence Branch and National Assessments Officer for Africa
Australian Liaison Office, Salisbury, Rhodesia

Director, South Asia, Africa, Middle East Trade Section
Head, Australian Liaison Office, Namibia during the Australian contribution to UNTAG
Director, Central and Southern Africa Section
Deputy head of mission, Australian Permanent Mission to the Supreme National Council, Cambodia
Australian ambassador to Iran
Assistant secretary, Parliamentary and Media Branch and Senior Spokesman
Acting first assistant secretary, Public Affairs and Consular Division
First assistant secretary, South and South East Asia Division
High commissioner, Papua New Guinea
First assistant secretary, South Pacific, Africa and Middle East Division
Special coordinator of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands
Deputy secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Warner was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2006 for outstanding public service as High Commissioner to Port Moresby, Special Coordinator for the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands and leader of the Emergency Response Team which dealt with the kidnapping in Baghdad of Mr Douglas Wood. On 13 June 2011, he was named an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to public sector leadership through the development of policy, administration and reform in the areas of intelligence, defence and international relations.