About the Australian Public Service Commissioner

Mr Stephen Sedgwick

Mr Stephen Sedgwick was appointed as Public Service Commissioner under section 45 of the Public Service Act 1999. His five year term began on 14 December 2009.

Mr Sedgwick has had a long and distinguished career in the public sector, having served in a number of departments beginning in 1972. He was Secretary to the Commonwealth Departments of Finance, Employment and Education between 1992 and 2002, and was a member of the Board of the Asian Development Bank for five years until 2007. He became Australian Public Service Commissioner in December 2009 after a period as Professor and Director of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne.

Mr Sedgwick graduated with Honours in Economics from the University of Sydney and holds a Master’s Degree from the University of London (LSE).

He is currently a member of the Board of the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation, the Advisory Council of the ANU Crawford School of Economics and Government, the Advisory Board for the Australian National Institute for Public Policy, the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management, the Advisory Group for the Australian Human Rights Commission Male Champions of Change Research Project, and the ACT Government’s Learning Capital Council.

Media releases and speeches

Media releases

• Statement by the Australian Public Service Commissioner - 15 December 2011
  Commonwealth Remuneration Tribunal today released Part II of the report on its review of the remuneration of Parliamentarians, Department Secretaries and Specified Statutory Officers (SSOs)
• Largest group of Indigenous APS employees recognised at annual graduation ceremony - 9 December 2011
• State of the Service Report 2010-11: APS improving its capability but continuing to face challenges - 24 November 2011
• State of the Service Report 2009–10: APS positioning itself for the future - 25 November 2010
• Celebrating the achievements of our Indigenous APS employees - 25 November 2010
• APS confirms commitment to employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - 10 November 2010
• Graduates inspired by APS leaders - 3 November 2010
• Indigenous Australian Public Servants have their say - 16 July 2010

Speeches/presentations

• State of the Service Report 2010-11: Launch – 5 December 2011
• Evaluating the Current State of the Public Sector and its Future Demands to Up Skill its Workforce – 9 August 2011
• Canberra Evaluation Forum: Evaluation And Australian Public Service Reform - 17 February 2011
• State of the Service Report 2009-10: Launch - 29 November 2010
• Connecting Across Boundaries—Making the Whole of Government Agenda Work - 19 November 2010
• The Reform of Australian Government Administration: Boosting Capability through Better Management of Our Human Capital - 19 November 2010
• Moving from People Management to Human Capital Management - 11 October 2010
• AHRI Leadership Conference: Keynote Address - 10 September 2010
• Launch of the 2009 Census Report—Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander APS Employees - 14 July 2010
• Australian Public Service reform: The past, the present and the future - 8 June 2010
• Strategic policy development and APS values - 12 May 2010
• Australian Public Sector Reform - 6 May 2010
• State of the Service report 2008-09 - WA