Wayne Phillips is Commissioner of the ACT Emergency Services Agency. A strategic leader with extensive experience in emergency management, Wayne has led complex public safety operations and major organisational reform. As Chief Superintendent with FRNSW and later Assistant Commissioner Corporate at ESA, he championed diversity and inclusion—establishing FRNSW’s Inclusion and Organisational Development Branch and its first Inclusive Culture Council. He is a national influencer through AFAC’s Champions of Change Fire & Emergency Group, working to advance gender equity and inclusive cultures across more than 30 agencies in Australia and New Zealand.