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Walter Ives CBE (26 August 1917 – 20 December 2006) was a senior Australian public servant. He was head of the Department of Primary Industry from 1968 to 1978.

Life and career

Walter Ives was born on 26 August 1917.

Ives worked in the CSIRO, and was appointed to the Department of Primary Industry in 1969 from his position there. As the Department of Primary Industry transitioned to become the Department of Agriculture, and then the Department of Primary Industry again, Ives remained its head.

In May 1978, Ives was named as the first chairman of the Primary Industry Bank of Australia, and he left the Department of Primary Industry.

Ives died on 20 December 2006, aged 89.

Awards

Ives was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in June 1976 for his public service.

References

1. ^ Walter Ives (1917 - 2006), Heaven Address, archived from the original on 4 September 2014
2. The Mandarins, 1974, The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Walter Ives, is a Master of Economics of the University of Sydney, who came to his present position in 1969 straight from CSIRO where he had spent the greater
3. CA 63: Department of Primary Industry [I], Central Office, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 27 December 2013
4. CA 1768: Department of Agriculture, Central Office, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 1 January 2014
5. CA 1960: Department of Primary Industry [II], Central Office, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 27 December 2013
6. "Ives heads new farm bank". The Canberra Times. 17 May 1980. p. 13.
7. "Search Australian Honours: IVES, Walter", itsanhonour.gov.au, Australian Government, archived from the original on 4 September 2014

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