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Deborah Glass OBE
Deborah Glass was the Victorian Ombudsman, appointed to a 10-year term in 2014, a role where she was responsible for investigations into Victorian government departments, local councils and statutory bodies. She also investigated referrals from Parliament, including the alleged politicisation of Victoria’s public sector. The Ombudsman is Victoria’s human rights investigator, in which capacity she investigated the hard lockdown of Melbourne’s public housing towers in 2020 and the closure of the State’s borders in 2021.
Deborah was raised in Melbourne, practising law briefly before leaving Australia and working for an investment bank in Switzerland. She then moved into a career in financial services regulation, first with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission and then as CEO of the UK’s Investment Management Regulatory Organisation.
Changing course to police oversight she became a Commissioner of the Independent Police Complaints Commission of England and Wales, heading up criminal and misconduct investigations into police including the landmark investigation into the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster. She was appointed IPCC Deputy Chair and in 2012, was awarded an OBE for her service.