Alan John Woods AC (30 March 1930 – 13 January 1990) was a senior Australian public servant.
[1] After attending St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill on a scholarship,[2] he obtained a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney in 1955 while working as an executive trainee for Dunlop Rubber Australia Ltd.[1] Woods began his Commonwealth Public Sector career at the Commonwealth Public Service Board in Sydney in 1955.
[1] He moved to Canberra in 1957, taking a research officer post in the Department of Territories.
[1] Woods was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1985 Australia Day Honours for "public service, particularly as Secretary to the Department of Resources and Energy".
[7] In the 1989 Australia Day Honours he was promoted to Companion of the Order of Australia "for public service, particularly as Secretary to the Department of Defence".