Nationality Australian Died August 3, 2003 | Name Alan Reiher Occupation Public servant Resting place Queensland | |
Full Name Alan Silvius Reiher Born 13 June 1927
Melbourne, Victoria ( 1927-06-13 ) Alma mater University of Melbourne | ||
Education University of Melbourne | ||
Alan Silvius Reiher (13 June 1927 – 3 August 2003) was a senior Australian public servant, best known for his time as Director-General of Works in the Australian Government bureaucracy and for heading government transport agencies in New South Wales and Victoria.
Life and career
Alan Reiher was born in Melbourne on 13 June 1927 to Silvius Thomas Reiher and Agnes Marion Reiher.
Reiher commenced his Australian Public Service career in 1957 as an Engineer in the Department of Works. He spent a year at the Harvard Business School soon before being appointed Director-General of the Department in 1967.
In 1975 while Secretary of the Department of Housing and Construction, Reiher was appointed as a member of the Darwin Reconstruction Authority.
He was appointed the Chief Commissioner of the New South Wales Public Transport Commission (PTC) in March 1976. The appointment was in the last weeks of the Coalition Government in New South Wales, and the Labor Party opposed his appointment, which was for seven years. In March 1980, Reiher resigned the job, having been on compulsory leave since the previous year when the New South Wales Government decided to "shake-up" the PTC.
In 1980 he was appointed Chairman of the Victorian Railways Board, and in 1982 he became Director-General of Transport for Victoria.
Beginning in 1986 for five years, Reiher was Victoria's Commissioner in North America.