Allan Gyngell is National President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. He is a Visiting Fellow at the National Security College and an honorary professor in the ANU’s College of Asia and the Pacific. He was the Director-General of the Office of National Assessments (ONA) from July 2009 until April 2013 and, prior to that, the founding Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy (2003-09) in Sydney.