Director - Strategic Relations
National Archives of Australia
Canberra, ACT
Australia
Adrian Cunningham will be presenting on Australia and New Zealand’s harmonisation of Recordkeeping standards on Tuesday
As Director of Strategic Relations for the National Archives of Australia (NAA), Adrian Cunningham has oversight of the Archives’ collaborations with government, industry, professional and international partners – most particularly on matters associated with digital recordkeeping and other modern recordkeeping initiatives.
Before joining the NAA in 1998, he worked at the Office for Government Information Technology and for many years as a private records archivist/librarian at the National Library of Australia, the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau and the State Library of New South Wales.
From 1998 to 2000, Adrian Cunningham was President of the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) and, from 2002 to 2004, he was Secretary of the International Council on Archives (ICA) Committee on Descriptive Standards. In 2004, he received the ASA’s prestigious Mander Jones award for work published in the Archives and Indigenous Peoples theme issue of the International Council on Archives journal, Comma.
He is Treasurer of the Pacific Regional Branch of the ICA (PARBICA), Convenor of the ASA Descriptive Standards Committee, Chair of the AGLS Metadata Working Group and a member of the Standards Australia Committee IT/21, Records Management.
Adrian Cunningham
Director, Strategic Relations
National Archives of Australia
PO Box 7425
Canberra Business Centre
ACT 2610
Australia
Queen Victoria Terrace
Parkes
ACT 2600
Australia
Telephone: +61 (0) 2 6212 3988
