Former ASIO head and Commonwealth Secretary join NSC Two of Australia’s leading national security and intelligence experts, Dr Heather Smith and Major General Duncan Lewis, have joined The Australian National University (ANU). Both have been appointed to academic roles in the ANU National Security College (NSC). Dr Smith, who served as Secretary of the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science from 2017 to 2020, will join NSC as a Professor and work on the relationship between geoeconomics and security. Major General Lewis, who led the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) from 2014 to 2019, has been appointed a Professor in the Practice of National Security.