Mick Shann

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Sir Keith "Mick" Shann
CBE
Chairman of the Public Service Board
In office
1977–1978
Personal details
Born Keith Charles Owen Shann
(1917-11-22)22 November 1917
Kew, Melbourne, Victoria
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Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales
Nationality Australia Australian
Spouse(s) Betty Evans
(m. 1944–1988; his death)
Alma mater University of Melbourne
Occupation Public servant and diplomat

Sir Keith Charles Owen "Mick" Shann CBE (22 November 1917 – 4 August 1988) was a senior Australian public servant and diplomat.

Life and career

Mick Shann was born in Kew, Melbourne on 22 November 1917.[1] His father was Frank Shann, a respected teacher and headmaster in Melbourne.[2] He studied Arts at the University of Melbourne, where he was in residence at Trinity College from 1936 to 1936, winning the Alcock Scholarship.[3]

Shann's first Commonwealth Public Service positions were at the Bureau of Census and Statistics and the Department of Labour and National Service in 1939.[1] He moved to the Department of External Affairs in Canberra 1946.[1]

In 1970, Shann was appointed a Deputy Secretary in the Department of External Affairs, shortly before it was renamed the Department of Foreign Affairs.[1] In this role until 1973, he worked alongside Departmental secretary Keith Waller to raise the department's reputation and morale.[1] During his time in the Deputy Secretary role, he insisted that the department's staff should go back on regular Public Service classifications and salary levels and the formal separation between diplomatic and administrative foreign affairs staff should be abolished.[4]

Shann was appointed Australian Ambassador to Japan in 1973.[5]

Shann died on 4 August 1988,[1] he was 70 years of age.[6]

Awards and honours

Shann was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in January 1964 while he was Ambassador in Jakarta.[7] He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in June 1980.[8]

In 2012, a street in the Canberra suburb of Casey was named Mick Shann Terrace in Shann's honour.[9]

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by as Permanent Representative Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations (Acting)
1950 – 1951		 Succeeded by
Bill Forsyth
as Permanent Representative
Preceded by
George D. Moore
 Australian Minister to the Philippines
1955 – 1957		 Succeeded by
Alfred Stirling
Australian Ambassador to the Philippines
1957 – 1959
Preceded by Australian Ambassador to Indonesia
1962 – 1966		 Succeeded by
Max Loveday
Preceded by Australian Ambassador to Japan
1973 – 1977		 Succeeded by
John Menadue
Government offices
Preceded by Chairman of the Public Service Board
1977 – 1978		 Succeeded by
William Cole

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