Abul Rizvi was a senior official in the Department of Immigration from the early 1990s to 2007. From 1998, Rizvi managed major growth in overseas students, skilled temporary migration, visitors and working holiday makers, including development of pathways to permanent migration. He was deputy secretary responsible for all aspects of immigration, humanitarian, citizenship and settlement policy from 2005 to 2007. Rizvi is an economics, accounting and public policy graduate from ANU and holds a PhD in immigration and population policy from Melbourne University.
