Owen Walsh : Ask Biography

Personal data

Birth name

Owen Edward John Walsh

Nationality

Australian

Alma mater

University of Tasmania

Profession

Lawyer

Administrator of Norfolk Island

Assumed office

2 October 2008

Governor general

Quentin Bryce

Preceded by

Grant Tambling

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Owen Edward John Walsh is the current Administrator of the Australian territory of Norfolk Island.

Walsh was educated at the University of Tasmania, from which he graduated with degrees in Arts and Law. He worked as a barrister and solicitor for the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, and as a senior policy adviser and legal officer for the Attorney-General's department, the Department of Transport and Regional Services, and the Australian Antarctic Division.

On Norfolk Island, Walsh was Official Secretary to the Administrator, Tony Messner, from 1999 to 2003, and again from January 2006 to Administrator Grant Tambling. When Tambling retired in 2007, Walsh was made Acting Administrator of the island on 7 August. He was officially sworn in as Administrator by the Governor-General Quentin Bryce on 2 October 2008.