Background
Sadleir was born in Dehradun, British India.
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David Sadleir
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He settled in Australia in 1949, and attended Scotch College, Perth and the University of Western Australia where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with.
Career
Sadleir joined the Australian Department of External Affairs in 1958. He was an advisor to the Australian delegations to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and was posted in Tokyo and Washington District of Columbia as Assistant Secretary of the department"s North Asia branch. From 1977 to 1981, he was Deputy Director-General of the Office of National Assessments, an intelligence agency reporting to the Prime Minister of Australia, under Director-General Robert Furlonger.
He was a Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organisations in Geneva from 1981 to 1984.
In 1988, Sadleir was Australian Ambassador to China for a three-year term until 1991, when he became Australian Ambassador to Belgium/Luxembourg and the European Communities. In 1992, Sadleir was appointed Director-General of Security, the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
Since leaving ASIO in October 1996, Sadleir founded a business and security consultancy company called David Sadleir and Associates. In 1998, he conducted a review of Australia"s entry control arrangements, in particular the Movement Alert List (MAL).
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