Andrew Dowse is a non-resident fellow and former director of RAND Australia. His most recent work for RAND Australia has been in providing research support to the Australian Department of Defence, specifically Navy, DST Group, the Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise and the National Naval Shipbuilding Group. He was part of the RAND team that supported the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) Reform Commission.
Before joining RAND in July 2021, Dowse was the director of Defence Research at Edith Cowan University. He served in the Royal Australian Air Force with senior appointments in Air Force strategy and integrated capability development and plans, and as the head of ICT Operations and J6. He retired from active duty in 2018 at the rank of air vice-marshal. His research interests include information warfare, military strategy, defence capability, national security, and space. Dowse holds a Ph.D. in information science from the University of New South Wales.
Ph.D. in information science, University of New South Wales; G.D. Legal in intelligence and security, Queensland University of Technology; M.Sc. in information science, University of New South Wales; B.Eng. in communications-electronics, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
