Dr Andrew Dowse is a retired Air Vice-Marshal of the Royal Australian Air Force, who serves on RAAFA’s Board of Directors as Vice President and chair of the veterans and heritage subcommittee.
Andrew is a graduate of RMIT in electronic engineering, with a masters degree and PhD from UNSW. His senior roles in the RAAF included leadership of Air Force strategy, joint capability planning, and Defence ICT operations. In recognition of his military service, he was made a member (2011) and then officer (2017) of the Order of Australia.
Since retiring from active duty in 2018, he worked at Edith Cowan University on defence research, and then was the first Australian head of RAND Australia. Andrew’s wife Fiona is the former senior ADF officer in Western Australia and current patron of the RAAFA Women’s Association in WA.