Sir Neil Smith Currie CBE (20 August 1926 – 30 July 1999) was a senior Australian public servant and policymaker.
[1] Currie began his Commonwealth public service career in 1948 as a cadet in the Department of External Affairs.
[1] He graduated from his cadetship alongside Rowen Osborn, and Barrie Dexter.
[2] Currie married Geraldine Evelyn Dexter in Tokyo in 1951 during his first posting there.
[8] In 1982 then Foreign Minister Tony Street appointed Currie the Australian Ambassador to Japan.