David Savage AM, served as an AusAID Stabilisation Advisor with the Coalition’s Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan from 2011-12. He became Australia’s first civilian casualty in Afghanistan when his patrol was attacked by a child suicide bomber. He was previously with the Australian Federal Police for 20 years, where he served on several overseas UN Peacekeeping Operations, including Mozambique and East Timor.
He then joined the United Nations, as a Human Rights and War Crimes investigator. He has also worked for the International Crisis Group, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, and other organisations throughout South, and South East Asia.
He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at The Australian National University. David was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2014 for his work in International Relations, Peacekeeping and Human Rights Investigations. David was an ACT finalist in the 2015 Australian of the Year awards.