| Rex Stevenson | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | AO |
| Order: | 8th |
| Office: | Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service |
| Term Start: | 9 December 1992 |
| Term End: | 28 February 1998 |
| Predecessor: | Jim Furner |
| Successor: | Allan Taylor |
| Birth Date: | 1942 10, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Birthname: | Rex Kenneth Stevenson |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Alma Mater: | Monash University |
| Occupation: | Intelligence officer |
Rex Kenneth Stevenson (born 16 October 1942) is an Australian company director and former intelligence officer, who was the Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service from 1992 to 1998.
Born in Melbourne, Stevenson attended Northcote High School, and then studied a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a Master of Arts at Monash University.[1] His 1970 masters thesis, Cultivators and administrators: British educational policy towards the Malays, 1875–1906, was published as a book by Oxford University Press in 1975.[2]
Stevenson began his career as an intelligence officer in 1973, and by 1990 he was the Deputy Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS). On 25 November 1992, he was promoted to acting Director-General and was officially appointed to the role two weeks later on 9 December.[3]
After his retirement from ASIS in 1998, Stevenson co-founded the security consulting firms Signet Group and Spectrum Consultancy.