Chair,
Intergovernmental
Committee on Drugs Executive Director,
Drug and Alcohol
Services SA

Since January 2005 Keith Evans has been Executive Director of Drug & Alcohol Services, South Australia and Principal Advisor, Drugs Policy to the Government of South Australia.  As of 1 January 2006, Keith is Chair of the Intergovernmental Committee on Drugs.

Prior to this appointment, Keith was State Director, Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Services for the Queensland Government’s Health Department from 1994-2001.

From 1984-1994 Keith was Chief Executive of the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand.

Keith has published extensively in the areas of alcohol policy, treatment and prevention and acted as an international consultant on alcohol policy to the World Health Organization.

He is a member of the Board of Management of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Keith is currently working with Governments of Sub Saharan Africa on the development of  national alcohol policies.