List of commissioners of the Australian Public Service


The Australian Public Service Commissioner is an official appointed by the Australian Government to take a leading role ensuring the Australian Public Service has adequate organisational and workforce capability. Until 1987 the Australian Public Service Commission was called the Public Service Board.

List of commissioners

Inaugural Public Service Commissioner

  • Duncan McLachlan

    Original appointments to the Public Service Board (1923)

  • William Skewes
  • John Patrick McGlinn
  • Brudenell White

    Commissioners on the Public Service Board

  • John McLaren
  • William Clemens

    Sole Public Service Commissioners

  • William Clemens
  • Frank Thorpe

    Chairmen of the Public Service Board

  • William Dunk
  • Frederick Wheeler
  • Alan Cooley
  • Mick Shann
  • Peter Wilenski

    Australian Public Service Commissioners

  • John Enfield
  • Dennis Ives
  • Peter Shergold
  • Helen Williams
  • Andrew Podger
  • Lynelle Briggs
  • Steve Sedgwick
  • John Lloyd
  • Peter Woolcott
  • Gordon de Brouwer